Country Fever

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or fever:

    Four or five whippoorwills
    Have come down from their native ledge
    To the open country edge
    To give us a piece of their bills.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
    John Steinbeck (1902–1968)