Pacific Gas Improvement

Famous quotes containing the words pacific, gas and/or improvement:

    “The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
    Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    I heard a Negro play.

    Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
    By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “... till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)