George H W Bush/presidency 1989%e2%80%931993

Famous quotes containing the words george h, bush and/or presidency:

    that repose
    And peace, which everywhere
    With so much earnestness you do pursue,
    Is only there.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
    Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese
    screen.
    The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in
    heaven.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    ... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)