Shoots

Famous quotes containing the word shoots:

“Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)

“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)