Lake of The Woods County

Famous quotes containing the words lake, woods and/or county:

    “Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
    The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Out of the woods my Master came,
    Content with death and shame.
    When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
    From under the trees they drew Him last:
    ‘Twas on a tree they slew Him—last
    When out of the woods He came.”
    —Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)

    “Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)