Smoky Mountain High

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

    “A lustreless protrusive eye
    Stares from the protozoic slime
    At a perspective of Canaletto.
    The smoky candle end of time
    Declines.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “... my mother ... piled up her hair and went out to teach in a one-room school, mountain children little and big alike. The first day, some fathers came along to see if she could whip their children, some who were older than she. She told the children that she did intend to whip them if they became unruly and refused to learn, and invited the fathers to stay if they liked and she’d be able to whip them too. Having been thus tried out, she was a great success with them after that.”
    —Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

    “His valors shown upon our crests today
    Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
    Even in the bosom of our adversaries.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)