Famous quotes containing the words sleepy, hollow, cemetery and/or concord:
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“In the hollow Lotos land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“When, said Mr. Phillips, he communicated to a New Bedford audience, the other day, his purpose of writing his life, and telling his name, and the name of his master, and the place he ran from, the murmur ran round the room, and was anxiously whispered by the sons of the Pilgrims, “He had better not!” and it was echoed under the shadow of the Concord monument, “He had better not!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)