Georgia Marble Company

Famous quotes containing the words georgia, marble and/or company:

    “Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “Interred beneath this marble stone
    Lie Saunt’ring Jack and Idle Joan.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    “The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, “the sweet seriousness of sixteen,” the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,—we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)