Picked

Famous quotes containing the word picked:

“What hotter hours,
Unregistered in vulgar fame, you have
Luxuriously picked out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Never tell me that not one star of all
That slip from heaven at night and softly fall
Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)