Famous quotes containing the words national, register, historic, places, davis and/or county:
“Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have Gods right to come.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”
—Anonymous U.S. Analyst In 1967. Quoted in The Uses of Anticommunism, vol. 21, published in The Socialist Register (1985)
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forcesin nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
—Robert Burton (15771640)
“... men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her.”
—Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910)
“Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)