Ground Setting

Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or setting:

“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)