South Sea Pearls

Famous quotes containing the words south, sea and/or pearls:

    ... while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    In tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;Mnevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair,
    Knee skirts trimmed with the jassamine sweet,
    And bells on their ankles and little black feet.
    Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)