Smoky Mountain High

Famous quotes containing the words smoky, mountain and/or high:

    O, he is as tedious
    As a tired horse, a railing wife,
    Worse than a smoky house.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
    And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
    Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)

    I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)