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)

    “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
    With thy green mother in some shady grove,
    When immelodious winds but made thee move,
    And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.”
    —William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

    “A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.”
    —Barbra Streisand (b. 1942)