Rainy Lake City

Famous quotes containing the words rainy, lake and/or city:

    I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    From Washington, proverbially “the city of distances,” through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)