Independence Day November

Famous quotes containing the words independence, day and/or november:

    “...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
    —Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)

    “All day I’ve built
    a lifetime and now
    the sun sinks to
    undo it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Not yesterday I learned to know
    The love of bare November days
    Before the coming of the snow....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)