Famous quotes containing the words webb and/or county:
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, to the film’s protagonist as he dangles perilously from a beam (1982)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)