Picked

Famous quotes containing the word picked:

“My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman’s ever been taken entirely unawares.... When a woman’s kissed it’s because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

“Oh, what’s the matter wi’ you, my lass,
An’ where’s your dashin Jimmy?
The sowdger boys have picked him up
And sent him far, far frae me.”
—Unknown. Jimmy’s Enlisted; or, The Recruited Collier (l. 1–4)

“The plum my mother picked matured slowly,
The boy she dropped from darkness at her side
Into the sided lap of light grew strong....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)