Department Country Reports

Famous quotes containing the words department, country and/or reports:

    “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
    —Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)

    “This country is at present engaged in furnishing material for future authors; not in encouraging its living ones.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)