Seat Declared Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words seat, declared and/or vacant:

    “I now leave Charleston, the seat of Satan, dissipation, and folly.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
    —Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

    “In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
    Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
    The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
    Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
    And on the vacant air.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)