Peter Green Splinter

Famous quotes containing the words peter, green and/or splinter:

    “No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    “by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
    And many a flower and medicinal weed—
    Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
    At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
    And passed to a sweet repose.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “Let me be
    a splinter in your side
    or a bride.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)