Rocky Point Township

Famous quotes containing the words rocky, point and/or township:

    “Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)