Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, town, car and/or generation:
“I never have been, am not now, and probably never shall be, in a mood of harassing the people, either North or South.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It all began so beautifully. After a drizzle in the morning, the sun came out bright and clear. We were driving into Dallas. In the lead car were President and Mrs. Kennedy.”
—Lady Bird Johnson (b. 1912)
“My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)