Famous quotes containing the words york, mining and/or disaster:
“Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)