Famous quotes containing the words fort, valley and/or state:
“Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that Im guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.”
—Garrett Fort (19001945)
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;”
—Thomas Moore (17791852)
“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WITas his RESISTANCE.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)