Famous quotes containing the words ford, country, squire and/or generation:
“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”
—John Milius, U.S. screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)
“What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“There now are no Squire Westerns as of old;
And our Sophias are not so emphatic,
But fair as then, or fairer to behold.
We have no accomplish’d blackguards, like Tom Jones,
But gentlemen in stays, as stiff as stones.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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