Famous quotes containing the words shamrock and/or left:
“O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 37–40)
“Zola: I need someone to remind me of the old, struggling, carefree days. Fighting for a foothold.
Paul Cézanne: You can never go back to it. And I never left it.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)