Famous quotes containing the words stone, house and/or brooklyn:
““That rough tooth of the sea,” Kineo, great source of arrows and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone were used.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)