Van Wert High

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

    “Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “O wert thou in the cauld blast,
    On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
    My plaidie to the angry airt,
    I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the
    mighty fallen!
    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;”
    —Bible: Hebrew Second Samuel (l. I, 19–20)