Babe Wore Red

Famous quotes containing the words babe, wore and/or red:

    “Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
    —William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)

    “Another day. Deliberations are recessed
    In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon
    On which we wore things and looked well at
    A slab of business rising behind the stars.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The dog-wood breaks white
    The pear-tree has caught
    The apple is a red blaze
    The peach has already withered its own leaves
    The wild plum-tree is alight.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)