Van Wert High

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

    “There’s no law against taking off a spaceship. It’s never been done so they haven’t gotten around to prohibiting it.”
    —Rip Van Ronkel, and Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)

    “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 disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)