American Woolen Mills

Famous quotes containing the words american, woolen and/or mills:

    “Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
    Ready to pass to the American strand.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended
    lying,
    Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
    Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)