Quaker Meeting House

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 Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
    —Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)

    “O, if you raise this house against this house
    It will the woefullest division prove
    That ever fell upon this cursed earth.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)