Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

“Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.”
—James Wright (1927–1980)

“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)