Famous quotes containing the words national, register, historic, places and/or county:
“[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forcesin nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of ones soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractiveyou are leaking.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)
“Jack: A politician, huh?
Editor: Oh, county treasurer or something like that.
Jack: Whats so special about him?
Editor: They say hes an honest man.”
—Robert Rossen (19081966)