Quicksilver Mining Museum

Famous quotes containing the words quicksilver, mining and/or museum:

    “the quicksilver art
    Throws back the invisible but lightning mass
    To inhabit the room; for I have seen it part
    The palpable air....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “Always clung to by barnacles.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)