Famous quotes containing the words wood, high and/or school:
“Old Abe is much better looking than I expected & younger looking. He shook hands like a good fellowworking hard at it like a man sawing wood at so much per cord.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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