Famous quotes containing the words white, pine and/or trail:
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Most of us dont have mothers who blazed a trail for usat least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the womens movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrumswhat should they be? how should they act?that became our uncertainties.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)