Short Day Plant

Famous quotes containing the words short, day and/or plant:

    “Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”
    —James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

    “Two feathered guests from Alabama, two together,
    And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
    And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
    And every day the she-bird crouched on her nest, silent, with bright
    eyes,
    And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing
    them,
    Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “We shall not always plant while others reap”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)