Famous quotes containing the words national, register, historic, places and/or county:
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (18741964)
“Never to walk from the stations lamps and laurels
Carrying my fathers lean old leather case
Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
“All places are alike,
And every earth is fit for burial.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)