Fly Land

Famous quotes containing the words fly and/or land:

    “Sisters are always drying their hair.
    Locked into rooms, alone,
    They pose at the mirror, shoulders bare,
    Trying this way and that their hair,
    Or fly importunate down the stair
    To answer the telephone.”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    “Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)