County Split

Famous quotes containing the words county and/or split:

“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)

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)