Port Gibson

Famous quotes containing the words port and/or gibson:

    “It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)