Black Hawk County

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

    “I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 1:5.

    “And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
    But like a hawk encumber’d with his hood,—
    Explaining Metaphysics to the nation—
    I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “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)