Famous quotes containing the words laurel and/or bay:
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)