Famous quotes containing the words national, register, historic, places, pierce and/or county:
“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“Dripping water can pierce a stone.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)