Brown State Wayside

Famous quotes containing the words brown, state and/or wayside:

    “in the brown baked features
    The eyes of a familiar compound ghost
    Both intimate and unidentifiable.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)