Flood Plain

Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or plain:

“Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
Threat’ning with deluge this devoted town.
To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“the thousand colors
in her plain brown hair—
morning sunshine”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)