Dry Basis

Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or basis:

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)