Flayed Skin

Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or skin:

    you have flayed us
    with your blossoms,
    spare us the beauty
    of fruit-trees.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, “Stranger, you take the wold skin and the chaw o’ sowbelly—I’ll rough it.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)