Nas Whiting Field

Famous quotes containing the words nas, whiting and/or field:

    A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
    That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
    As leene was his hors as is a rake,
    And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
    But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    A little nest that’s nestled where the roses bloom.
    —George Whiting (1884–1943)

    When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man’s slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.
    Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)