Famous quotes containing the words year, silver and/or city:
“Listen, thats the one that done it. The dusters. They started it anyways. Blowin like this year after year. Blowin the land away. Blowin the crops away. Blowin us away now.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lords silver and gold.”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)
“I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)