Famous quotes containing the words francis, national and/or forest:
“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi saidAll saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)