Slippery Rock Township

Famous quotes containing the words slippery, rock and/or township:

    “My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
    Either a coward or a flatterer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ““O what unlucky streak
    Twisting inside me, made me break the line?
    What was the rock my gliding childhood struck,
    And what bright unreal path has led me here?””
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)