Daughter Clementine

Famous quotes containing the words daughter and/or clementine:

“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech’s daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner, ‘Forty-Niner,
And his daughter Clementine.”
—Percy Montross–FU.S. poet. Oh, My Darling Clementine (attributed to Montross)