Banked Dirt Oval

Famous quotes containing the words banked and/or dirt:

“The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they’d realise that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)