Broken Water

Famous quotes containing the words broken and/or water:

    “He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox—of which they are very much afraid—having broken out in Oldtown.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It may be that through habit these do best,
    Coming to water clumsily undressed
    Yearly; teaching their children by a sort
    Of clowning; helping the old, too, as they ought.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)