Wells/culture

Famous quotes containing the words wells and/or culture:

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)