Rock Candy Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words candy mountain, rock, candy and/or mountain:

    “I’m headed for a land that’s far away
    Beside the crystal fountains.
    So come with me, we’ll go and see
    The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
    —Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)

    “The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)

    “Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
    This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “And as it measured in her calipers,
    The mountain stood exalted in its place.
    So love will take between the hands a face. . . .”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)