Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:
“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)
“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)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)