Brooke County

Famous quotes containing the words brooke and/or county:

“Infinite hungers leap no more
In the chance swaying of your dress;
And love has changed to kindliness.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)