Northern Blue Jay

Famous quotes containing the words northern, blue and/or jay:

    There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
    Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    Tommy: You’re gonna have trouble with that one.
    Milo: Oh no I’m not. He’s just not housebroken yet, that’s all.
    Tommy: When are you going to stop getting yourself involved with young itinerant artists? It never works. If they’re no good, you’re ashamed. And if they are, they get independent.
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)