Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, town, car and/or generation:
“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One way to do it might be by making the scenery penetrate the automobile. A polished black sedan was a good subject, especially if parked at the intersection of a tree-bordered street and one of those heavyish spring skies whose bloated gray clouds and amoeba-shaped blotches of blue seem more physical than the reticent elms and effusive pavement. Now break the body of the car into separate curves and panels; then put it together in terms of reflections.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)