Spanish Succession

Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or succession:

    “Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
    In the river, never heard
    Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
    Fling off their iron and cut the green,
    Leaving circles new and clean
    While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
    —Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)

    “Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)