Dam Raise

Famous quotes containing the words dam and/or raise:

“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)