Folk High Schools

Famous quotes containing the words folk, high and/or schools:

    “the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
    And smale foweles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
    So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the
    mighty fallen!
    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;”
    —Bible: Hebrew Second Samuel (l. I, 19–20)

    “You are a shameless, husband-hunting by-product of six of the most expensive finishing schools in the Western Hemisphere.”
    —Tom Waldman (d. 1985)