Famous quotes containing the words spring, hill and/or historic:
“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twind
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
“I remember the scenes of battle in which we stood together. I remember especially that broad and deep grave at the foot of the Resaca hill where we left those gallant comrades who fell in that desperate charge. I remember, through it all, the gallantry, devotion and steadfastness, the high-set patriotism you always exhibited.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forcesin nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
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