Famous quotes containing the words mining town, gold, mining and/or town:
“Its a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“After reading Howitts account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Its a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)