Wade Hampton Census Area

Famous quotes containing the words wade, hampton and/or area:

    Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
    —Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

    During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)