Van Wert High

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or high:

    “I’m a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn’t pay off.”
    —Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)

    “Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
    This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
    Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
    Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
    Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
    I never thought to ask, I never knew:
    But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
    The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)