Places
- French Frigate Shoals, an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Read more about this topic: FFS
Famous quotes containing the word places:
“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)
“The sense of place is unavoidable in western Dakota, and maybe thats our gift to the world. ...In these places you wait, and the places mold you.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such improvements in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety; but as for the beauty of one of these model farms, I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)