Black Eye Stripe

Famous quotes containing the words black, eye and/or stripe:

    “A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever,
    A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping,
    A sword beneath his mother’s heart— yet never
    Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    ““Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
    Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus 21:23.