Tar Baby Story

Famous quotes containing the words tar, baby and/or story:

    “The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
    The gunner and his mate,
    Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian and Margery,
    But none of us cared for Kate;
    For she had a tongue with a tang,
    Would cry to a sailor, ‘Go hang!’
    She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
    Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch:
    Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
    —Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)

    “Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)