Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

“Alas! in winter, dead and dark,
Where can poor Robin go?”
—William Allingham (1824–1889)

“The Forefathers’ day—Pilgrim day. We are at the same high call here today—freedom, freedom for all. We all know that is the essence of this contest.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)