Yonder Mountain String

Famous quotes containing the words yonder, mountain and/or string:

    “The old world stands serenely behind the new, as one mountain yonder towers behind another, more dim and distant. Rome imposes her story still upon this late generation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
    The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
    Of him who walked in glory and in joy
    Following his plough, along the mountain side:
    By our own spirits are we deified:
    We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
    But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)