Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Before the leaves can mount again
    To fill the trees with another shade,
    They must go down past things coming up.
    They must go down into the dark decayed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A violet in the youth of primy nature,
    Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)