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)

“They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)