Samuel Adams Boston

Famous quotes containing the words samuel, adams and/or boston:

“Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: You wanna quit Ethan?
Ethan Edwards: That’ll be the day.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

“Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)