Famous quotes containing the words van buren, van, buren, high and/or school:
““Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you—but my friends never leave me.””
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Dieman’s Land.”
—Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)
“There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.”
—Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)
“There’s Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan,
A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy;
One’s had her fill of lovers, another’s had but one,
Another boasts, “I pick and choose and have but two or three.”
If head and limb have beauty and the instep’s high and light
They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You send a boy to school in order to make friends—the right sort.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)