Sugar Pine

Famous quotes containing the words sugar and/or pine:

    “Naughty Paughty Jack-a-Dandy,
    Stole a Piece of Sugar Candy
    From the Grocer’s Shoppy-Shop,
    And away did hoppy-hop.”
    —Henry Carey (1693?–1743)

    “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)