Black Jack Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words black, jack and/or brigade:

    There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
    There in the sudden blackness the black pall
    Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    This is the priest all shaven and shorn
    That married the man all tattered and torn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)

    Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)