Famous quotes containing the words indian, river and/or county:
“Sabra Cravat: I should think youd be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
Cim Cravat: Ruby isnt an Indian hired girl. Shes the daughter of an Osage chief.
Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
Cim Cravat: Shes just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
—Howard Estabrook (18841978)
“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
Theres a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped cleana river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)