Famous quotes containing the words plaster and/or creek:
“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
This Land of Saints, and then as the applause died out,
Of plaster Saints; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)