Green Streak

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or streak:

    “Among the Indians he had fought;
    And with him many tales he brought
    Of pleasure and of fear;
    Such tales as told to any Maid
    By such a Youth, in the green shade,
    Were perilous to hear.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “No gray hairs streak my soul,
    no grandfatherly fondness there!
    I shake the world with the might of my voice,
    and walk—handsome,
    twentytwoyearold.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)