Montgomery Blair High

Famous quotes containing the words montgomery, blair and/or high:

    “The fates are not quite obdurate;
    They have a grim, sardonic way
    Of granting them who supplicate
    The thing they wanted yesterday.”
    —Roselle Mercier Montgomery (1874–1933)

    “The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday—even after dark the cannon’s insatiate roar continued ...”
    —Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

    “I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)