Famous quotes containing the words north, american and/or birds:
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“[If] Playboys Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: I buy it for the fiction and I buy it for the interview.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“She does the work about the house
As well as most, but like a mouse:
Happy enough to chat and play
With birds and rabbits and such as they,
So long as men-folk keep away.”
—Charlotte Mew (18701928)