Locust Valley High

Famous quotes containing the words locust, valley and/or high:

“Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)