Day Berkeley County

Famous quotes containing the words day, berkeley and/or county:

    Lips that sealed up the sense from gnawing time
    Now beg the favor with a graveyard grin.
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    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)