Famous quotes containing the words brown, tree and/or snakes:
“I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 14)
“The wind flapped loose, the wind was still,
Shaken out dead from tree and hill:
I had walked on at the winds will,
I sat now, for the wind was still.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
—Wesley Strick, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Max Cady (Robert DeNiro)
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