Highlands Hammock State

Famous quotes containing the words highlands, hammock and/or state:

    “Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands.
    Oh! where hae ye been?
    They hae slain the Earl of Murray,
    And hae laid him on the green.”
    —Unknown. The Bonny Earl of Murray (l. 1–4)

    “We follow where the Swamp Fox guides,
    His friends and merry men are we;
    And when the troop of Tarleton rides,
    We burrow in the cypress tree.
    The turfy hammock is our bed,
    Our home is in the red deer’s den,
    Our roof, the tree-top overhead,
    For we are wild and hunted men.”
    —William Gilmore Simms (1806–1872)

    “When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)