Peter Green Splinter

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

    “Among them was a Bishop, who
    Had lately been appointed to
    The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,
    And Peter was his name.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “As the shade went up
    And the ambulance came crashing through the dust
    Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars,
    And the iceberg slowly sank
    In the volcano and the sea ran far away
    Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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