Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    Black girl black girl
    lips as curved as cherries
    full as grape bunches
    sweet as blackberries
    Dudley Randall (b. 1914)

    Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:
    John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)