Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

    A cold coming we had of it,
    Just the worst time of the year
    For a journey, and such a long journey:
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)