Humpty Dumpty Potato

Famous quotes containing the words humpty dumpty, humpty and/or potato:

    ““The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
    “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    ““Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
    “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
    Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
    Through living roots awaken in my head.
    But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)