Famous quotes containing the words generation, town and/or car:
“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“If a man, cautious,
hides his limp,
Somebody has to limp it! Things
do it; the surroundings limp.
House walls get scars,
the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.”
—Robert Bly (b. 1926)
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