Famous quotes containing the words fort, smith and/or public:
“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.”
—Garrett Fort (19001945)
“My country, tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring!”
—Samuel Francis Smith (18081895)
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (18361903)