Wake Forest

Wake Forest may refer to:

  • Wake Forest, North Carolina, a town near Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest University, a university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Wake Forest, name of the plantation owned by Calvin Jones (physician) that became the first home of Wake Forest University
  • Demon Deacons, athletic teams from Wake Forest University

Famous quotes containing the words wake and/or forest:

    “Life’s like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it’s the ninth inning.”
    —Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Vera (Ann Savage)

    “I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)