Richard Montgomery High

Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:

    “I don’t know how you feel, professor, but I feel like a knife that’s just stabbed a friend in the back.”
    —Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas)

    “The fates are not quite obdurate;
    They have a grim, sardonic way
    Of granting them who supplicate
    The thing they wanted yesterday.”
    —Roselle Mercier Montgomery (1874–1933)

    “If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)