Brown Green

Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or green:

    “Whippersnapper clerks
    Call us out of our name
    We got to say mister
    To spindling boys”
    —Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)

    “I passed a tomb among green shades
    Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
    Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)