Richard Montgomery High

Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:

    “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”
    —Lucille Feynman, mother of American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

    “The fates are not quite obdurate;
    They have a grim, sardonic way
    Of granting them who supplicate
    The thing they wanted yesterday.”
    —Roselle Mercier Montgomery (1874–1933)

    “As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)