Blue Marble

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or marble:

    The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    O would that we had met
    When I had my burning youth!
    But I grow old among dreams,
    A weather-worn, marble triton
    Among the streams.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)