Van Wert High

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

    “Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
    —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)

    “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)