Famous quotes containing the words bedford and/or spent:
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 17:21.