High German Word

Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:

    A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
    Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
    Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me ...
    I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
    It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol ...
    Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
    It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)