Arthur Clement Hilton

Famous quotes containing the words clement hilton, arthur, clement and/or hilton:

    Is thy home European or Asian,
    O mystical monster marine?
    —Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)

    The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
    —Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

    Consciousness is cerebral celebrity—nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and “symptomatic” effects—on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)

    The acorn’s not yet
    Fallen from the tree
    That’s to grow the wood,
    That’s to make the cradle,
    That’s to rock the bairn,
    That’s to grow a man,
    That’s to lay me.
    —Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)