Famous quotes containing the words beecher, metropolitan and/or water:
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)