Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—
    Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
    Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
    Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    Now fades the lasts long streak of snow,
    Now burgeons every maze of quick
    About the flowering squares, and thick
    By ashen roots the violets blow.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)