Sitting Governor

Famous quotes containing the words sitting and/or governor:

“Look at the stars! look, look up the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)