The Kitchen Wall

Famous quotes containing the words kitchen and/or wall:

    “When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man’s slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)

    “What a troublesome thing a wall is! I thought it was to defend me, and not I it! Of course, if they had no wall, they would not need to have any sentinels.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)