Black Hawk County

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

    “Soon,
    Light from a small intense lopsided moon
    Shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)