Jackson Township Fire

Famous quotes containing the words jackson, township and/or fire:

“We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I thought I alone suffered,
but suffering is everywhere.
When I went on the housetop
I saw its fire in every home.”
—Farid (13th cent.)