Dis/places

Famous quotes containing the words dis and/or places:

“I hate to see de evenin’ sun go down,
Hate to see de evenin’ sun go down,
‘Cause ma baby, he done lef’ dis town.”
—W.C. Handy (1873–1958)

“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)