Main Street Historic

Famous quotes containing the words main street, main, street and/or historic:

    “Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
    translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
    For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
    And I shall die an old Parisian.”
    —Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)

    “So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism—despotism during the campaign—is indispensable.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
    And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)