Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:
“It is not their bones or hide or tallow that I love most. It is the living spirit of the tree, not its spirit of turpentine, with which I sympathize, and which heals my cuts. It is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a heaven, there to tower above me still.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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