States Gulf Coast

Famous quotes containing the words states, gulf and/or coast:

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)

“His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.”
—J.P. (John Phillips)

“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)