Famous quotes containing the words shirley temple, shirley, temple and/or black:
“Mummy and Daddy are not poor, they just haven’t any money. There’s a difference.”
—Ernest Pascal, and Walter Lang. Mytyl (Shirley Temple)
“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”
—James Shirley (1596–1666)
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)