Famous quotes containing the words barren, county and/or high:
“Not in our time, O Lord,
the plowshare for the sword,
not in our time, the knife,
sated with life-blood and life,
to trim the barren vine.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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