Appointed Bishop

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or bishop:

    The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I shall be “fixed” a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to the man what has cut him out, and is marrying his own dear “gal.”
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    I know what I know, says the almanac.
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)