Pan Alley Cats

Famous quotes containing the words pan, alley and/or cats:

    A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.
    —For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    In the mind there is a thin alley called death
    and I move through it as
    through water.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    The cats will be glad; the fathers feel justified; the mothers
    relieved.
    The sons and husbands will no longer need to pay the bills.
    Childhoods will be put away, the obscene nightmare abated.
    Louise Bogan (1897–1970)