Academy Prize Event

Famous quotes containing the words academy, prize and/or event:

    “When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “What we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value, then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Found a family, build a state,
    The pledged event is still the same:
    Matter in end will never abate
    His ancient brutal claim.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)