Weston Burying Ground

Famous quotes containing the words weston, burying and/or ground:

    Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    —Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)