Famous quotes containing the words pleasant, valley and/or town:
“Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleasant subject. Do have some sense of propriety.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at once all who need to go through such exercises in so new a country, where there is nothing to hinder their living an outdoor life. Better omit Blair, and take the air.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)