“A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.””
Quotes by Thomas Peck
“Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to help support the fledgling little college established near the Charles River, early in the colony's history, by John Harvard.:`°””
“Josh Peck recently wrote a fascinating article for SkyWatchTV Magazine called “Extradimensional Earth,” in which he proposed an explanation for a curious discrepancy in the volume verses weight ratio (mass) of the earth: If we consider the entire Earth is about 260 trillion cubic miles, then there are 13 million cubic miles of unknown mass. No one knows what this extra mass is, where exactly it is located, why we can’t see it, nor why we can’t measure””
“legal eagles will peck each other to death debating the rights of the world’s newest “netizens.””
“When birds are at their wit’s end, they peck; when beasts are at their wit’s end, they gore; and when humans are at their wit’s end, they resort to trickery.””
Thomas Ephraim Peck was an influential American clergyman and theologian who played a significant role in the Presbyterian Church during the 19th century. His intellectual leadership was marked by a c...