Quaker Meeting House

Famous quotes containing the words quaker, meeting and/or house:

“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“I’ve met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I’ve ever met who was polite to me and still made the chills run up and down my back.”
—Robert D. Andrews. Nick Grindé. Police detective, Before I Hang, describing his meeting with Dr. Garth (1940)

“He hath eaten me out of house and home, he hath put all my
substance into that fat belly of his.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)