Famous quotes containing the words prairie, curling and/or club:
“The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.”
—J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)
“The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said Talk, child.
Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!
Well, now that we have seen each other, said the Unicorn, if youll believe in me, Ill believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—Jennie June Croly 18291901, U.S. founder of the womans club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorests Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)