Famous quotes containing the words plain, grove and/or township:
“They say its worse to be ugly. I think it must only be different. If youre pretty, you are subject to one set of assaults; if youre plain you are subject to another.”
—Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932)
“Bees dont swarm in a mango grove for nothing.
Where can you see a wisp of smoke
without a fire?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“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)