Polluted

Famous quotes containing the word polluted:

    “The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “Avoid the reeking herd,
    Shun the polluted flock,
    Live like that stoic bird,
    The eagle of the rock.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)