Barnes County

Famous quotes containing the words barnes and/or county:

“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
—Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)