Famous quotes containing the words western, hills, high and/or school:
“Its a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the worlds greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“I am going to my own hearthstone,
Bosomd in yon green hills alone
A secret nook in a pleasant land,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I go to school to youth to learn the future.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)