Northern Blue Jay

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

    Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
    I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
    You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
    You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
    Li Po (701–762)

    The lariat snaps; the cowboy rolls
    His pack, and mounts and rides away.
    Back to the land the cowboy goes.
    —William Jay Smith (b. 1918)