Mississippi Field Hospital

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, field and/or hospital:

    “Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
    —Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)

    “The snow had begun in the gloaming,
    And busily all the night
    Had been heaping field and highway
    With a silence deep and white.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “The church is a sort of hospital for men’s souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailor’s Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)