Top Public High

Famous quotes containing the words top, public and/or high:

    Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
    Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
    All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
    Desolation in immaculate public places,
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    They talk about their Pilgrim blood,
    Their birthright high and holy!
    A mountain-stream that ends in mud
    Methinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)