Houston Missouri/history

Famous quotes containing the words houston, missouri and/or history:

    “When your dreams tire, they go underground
    and out of kindness that’s where they stay.”
    —Libby Houston (b. 1941)

    “I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)