Famous quotes containing the words north, american, smallpox and/or epidemic:
“I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”
—Oliver North (b. 1943)
“The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now.
What an inane cardplayer. And the age may support it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)