Long Stem

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or stem:

“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face—the face of one long dead—
Looks at me from the wall,”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.”
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)