Famous quotes containing the words ball and/or ground:
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)