Famous quotes containing the words fort, valley and/or state:
“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)
“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)