Black Hawk County

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

    “Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
    Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    ““What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
    Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
    Last evening? that I, who had sat
    Dumbfounded before a knave,
    Should give to my friend
    A pretence of wit.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)