Famous quotes containing the words washington, state, early and/or history:
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
—Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
“From this elevation, just on the skirts of the clouds, we could overlook the country, west and south, for a hundred miles. There it was, the State of Maine, which we had seen on the map, but not much like that,—immeasurable forest for the sun to shine on, the eastern stuff we hear of in Massachusetts. No clearing, no house. It did not look as if a solitary traveler had cut so much as a walking-stick there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.”
—Andre Maurois (1885–1967)
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)