Famous quotes containing the words quaker, meeting and/or house:
“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
Bobbing by Ahabs whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Its a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was mine.”
—Jane Adams (20th century)
“Up the reputable walks of old established trees
They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes
Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in blessing:
I dont wanna play at your house;
I dont like you any more.
My house stands opposite, on the other hill,”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
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