Famous quotes containing the words celestial and/or empire:
“poor black cherubs rise at seven
To do celestial chores.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it.... “Beware of me,” it says, “but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)