Famous quotes containing the words fifty, mile and/or mountain:
“I asked my mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high he reached the sky,
And didnt get back till the Fourth of July.”
—Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 14)
“I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has shook them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mile of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it wont come.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The mountain held the town as in a shadow.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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