Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or town:
“Neither by nights ancient fear,
The parting of hat from hair,
Pursed lips at the receiver,
Shall I fall to deaths feather.
By these I would not care to die,
Half convention and half lie.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the glad tidings of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)