Famous quotes containing the words west, adams and/or heights:
“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)