Famous quotes containing the words sojourn and/or time:
“There were some schools, so called [in my youth]; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond “readin, writin, and cipherin,” to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“First time he kissed me, he but only kiss’d
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)