Young Gray Jays

Famous quotes containing the words young, gray and/or jays:

“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

““‘Weave the warp and weave the woof,
The winding-sheet of Edward’s race.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)