Famous quotes containing the words whitcomb, locomotive and/or company:
“a feller is a-feelin at his best,
With the risin sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodders in the shock.”
—James Whitcomb Riley (18491916)
“Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
“Come, boys, I know theres kindly hearts among so good a
crowd
To be in such good company would make a deacon proud.”
—Hugh Antoine DArcy (18431925)
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