Pollen Tube Grows

Famous quotes containing the words pollen, tube and/or grows:

    “Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can’t buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.”
    —Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)

    “Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe—like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”
    —W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)