United States Fish

Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or fish:

“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)

“There goes a saying, and ‘twas shrewdly said,
Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)