Boston/utilities

Famous quotes containing the words boston and/or utilities:

“In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)