Douglas/places

Famous quotes containing the words douglas and/or places:

“If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”
—Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)

“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)