Speaking Population

Famous quotes containing the words speaking and/or population:

““A poet is a man speaking to men”:
But I am then a poet, am I not?—”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)

“Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, “if you must shoot, shoot straight up!””
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)