Dewitt Clinton Elementary

Famous quotes containing the words dewitt, clinton and/or elementary:

    “You still whispered you would not die.
    Yet in the nights I heard you cry
    Like a whipped child;”
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    “Children’s lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.”
    —Hillary Rodham Clinton (20th century)

    “As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)