Laredo/people

Famous quotes containing the words laredo and/or people:

    ‘Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
    Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
    Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o’er me,
    For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.
    —Unknown. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo (l. 5–8)

    He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)