Dowie Silver Cup

Famous quotes containing the words dowie, silver and/or cup:

    ““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
    An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
    A better lord was never born
    Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
    —Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

    “When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
    —Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)