Famous quotes containing the words wild, goose and/or pagoda:
“Birch boughs enough piled everywhere!
All fresh and sound from the recent ax.
Time someone came with cart and pair
And got them off the wild flowers’ backs.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)
“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)