Wellington Boots

Famous quotes containing the words wellington and/or boots:

“Something is about to happen. Leaves are still.
Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky.
Perhaps he will fall.”
—Alfred Wellington Purdy (b. 1919)

“Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don’t realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air-conditioned office.”
—Beatrice Alice Hicks (1919–1979)