George Washington Birthplace

Famous quotes containing the words george, washington and/or birthplace:

    “Take one of those every half-mile and call me if there is any change.”
    —Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)

    “You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are my orders.”
    —Frank W. Wead (1895?–1947)

    “The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)