Famous quotes containing the words crosses, state and/or road:
“When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and aloneGOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise and religiousbut let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to theegive me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)