Famous quotes containing the words cottonwood and/or county:
“Three centuries of piety
Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“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 boat—at 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 (1809–1865)