Hood County

Famous quotes containing the words hood and/or county:

“But who would rush at a benighted man,
And give him two black eyes for being blind?”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)