Long Christmas Dinner

Famous quotes containing the words long, christmas and/or dinner:

    The symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground.... So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The ninth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Nine drummers drumming,
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 53–55)

    “Long for me the rick will wait,
    And long will wait the fold,
    And long will stand the empty plate,
    And dinner will be cold.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)