Blue Breeches

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or breeches:

    “The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
    Between the two we live and die
    The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “We found it at last, an’ a little shed
    Where they shut up the lamb at night.
    We looked in an’ seen them huddled thar,
    So warm an’ sleepy an’ white;
    An’ THAR sot Little Breeches an’ chirped,
    As peart as ever you see,
    “I wants a chaw of terbacky,
    An’ that’s what’s the matter of me.””
    —John Milton Hay (1838–1905)