Bedford Hills

Famous quotes containing the words bedford and/or hills:

“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“We near heaven’s hills with this,
God’s asphodels,
O stay,
stay close,
bend down.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)