Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:
“the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumberd with his hood,
Explaining Metaphysics to the nation
I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“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 boatat 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 (18091865)
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