Isaac Duncan Macdougall

Famous quotes containing the words isaac, duncan and/or macdougall:

    “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

    “This was once
    a city among men, a gathering together of spirit.
    It was measured by the Lord and found wanting.”
    —Robert Duncan (b. 1919)

    “Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea: they eat their young.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)