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)

    “As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “Work has to be done.
    Postmen like doctors go from house to house.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)