Jim Crow Era

Famous quotes containing the words jim, crow and/or era:

“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)

“Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,

That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it,”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)

“... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)