Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or miles:
“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)