Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    “We all felt that the men about us were making history, and that we were looking at heroes, if we could only find them out.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “The men are magnificent—the young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fresh complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation—the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)