Famous quotes containing the words slide, mountain and/or ocean:
“George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to save the trouble of preparing a drop for him. Gentlemen, he said, I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off? He was told to jump.”
—For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter Little Prig;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“As I ebbd with the ocean of life,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walkd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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