Famous quotes containing the words oak, hills and/or high:
“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we dont put psychotics in high places and weve got the problem solved.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
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