Traded Nettles

Famous quotes containing the words traded and/or nettles:

    When we traded the buffalo for a mare,
    we had no milk to drink,
    and we still had droppings to clean up.
    Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    I think what everybody calls a miracle is just common sense.... You can look at the attitudes when people come in. That’s why they call it a miracle. These are black kids and they’re not supposed to know the things they know and achieve the way they are achieving.
    —Marva Nettles Collins (b. 1936)