Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

“owls in the beardusky woods”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“When she asked him about birth control, he sat down beside her and talked for half an hour about what a great woman Margaret Sanger was and how birthcontrol was the greatest single blessing to mankind since the invention of fire.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)