Meeting Houses Quotes
- In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were… — Alice Morse Earle
- In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like… — Alice Morse Earle