(17 quotes found)
“All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of”
William Shakespeare
“Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”
Dan Brown
“The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.”
Martin Buber
“Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task”
“Not only is she none of those, but she is a renowned nanny with stellar references. It does not get much worse than this without a physical injury.”
David Brickman
“But the thing that we?re renowned for is patient care.”
Dawn Fernald
“[Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Post Book World ... one of the premier novelists of her generation, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grows more powerful with each book.”
Wendy Smith
“John Hammond is a renowned international trainer and he now just has to get the mare here safe and sound.”
Greg Childs
“They're renowned for the best stage show. There was a question whether the stage would fit through the tunnel at Scott Stadium-- 13 by 11 feet. Everything has to go through that tunnel.”
Tres Thomas
“To set the cause above renown.”
Henry Newbolt
