Lincoln Park Neighborhood

Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, park and/or neighborhood:

    “Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
    And let us, without staying,
    All in our gowns of green so gay
    Into the Park a-maying!”
    —Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)