July Peas Grow

Famous quotes containing the words july, peas and/or grow:

“This, it will be remembered, was the scene of Mrs. Rowlandson’s capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this July afternoon, and under that mild exterior, those times seemed as remote as the irruption of the Goths. They were the dark age of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife”
—Unknown. I Eat My Peas with Honey (l. 3–4)

“What then in love can woman do?
If we grow fond they shun us.
And when we fly them, they pursue:
But leave us when they’ve won us.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)