William Henry Gates

Famous quotes containing the words william, henry and/or gates:

    ““Can’t” is what our grandparents said about the airplane.”
    —Richard Blake, and William Cameron Menzies. Stu Kelston (Arthur Franz)

    “Of coursers also spake they: Henry rid
    Well, like most Englishmen, and loved the races;
    And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian,
    Could back a horse, as despots ride a Russian.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood
    Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
    Whelms us to the tired land where tasseling corn,
    Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
    Rot on the vine: in that land were we born.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)