Public Register Volume

Famous quotes containing the words public, register and/or volume:

    “I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “Never to walk from the station’s lamps and laurels
    Carrying my father’s lean old leather case
    Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The other 1000 are principally the ‘old Yankee stock,’ who have lost the town, politically, to the Portuguese; who deplore the influx of the ‘off-Cape furriners’; and to whom a volume of genealogy is a piece of escape literature.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)