Thompson Shot Put

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, shot and/or put:

    “Above the bayonets, mixed and crossed,
    Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost
    Receding through the battle cloud,
    And heard across the tempest loud
    The death cry of a nation lost!”
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    “I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk
    For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,
    In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray,
    And what’s the good of women for all that they can say
    Is fol de rol de rolly O.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)