Black Earth Town

Famous quotes containing the words black, earth and/or town:

    “Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i’ the wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 7:6,7.

    “In the County Tyrone, in the town of Dungannon,”
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 1)