Famous quotes containing the words big, stone and/or county:
“The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the county there are thirty-seven churches
and no butcher shop. This could be taken
as a matter of all form and no content.”
—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)