Smoky Mountains National

Famous quotes containing the words smoky, mountains and/or national:

    A lustreless protrusive eye
    Stares from the protozoic slime
    At a perspective of Canaletto.
    The smoky candle end of time
    Declines.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    In the mountains there are thousand-year-old trees, but in the towns there are hardly any hundred-year-old people.
    Chinese proverb.

    Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)