Famous quotes containing the words double, axe and/or handle:
“Under the lindens on the heather,
There was our double resting-place.”
—Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)
“The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)