Post Office Building

Post Office Building may refer to:

China
  • General Post Office Building, Shanghai
United States
  • Any one of numerous buildings listed at U.S. Post Office (disambiguation)
    • For just one example, Post Office Building (Greenville, Texas), listed on the NRHP

Famous quotes containing the words post office, post, office and/or building:

    “A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
    —William Harmon (b. 1938)

    “I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “This happy breed of men, this little world,
    This precious stone set in the silver sea,
    Which serves it in the office of a wall,
    Or as a moat defensive to a house,
    Against the envy of less happier lands,
    This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)