Powder Glass Beads

Famous quotes containing the words powder, glass and/or beads:

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)