Shady Side Academy

Famous quotes containing the words shady, side and/or academy:

“Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)