Famous quotes containing the words benton, charter and/or township:
“All my life Ive felt like somebodys wife, or somebodys mother or somebodys daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And thats why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.”
—Robert Benton (b. 1932)
“When Britain first, at Heavens command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of her land,
And guardian angels sung the strain:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves.”
—James Thomson (17001748)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)