Root Beer Float

Famous quotes containing the words root, beer and/or float:

    “Black creeps from root to root,
    each leaf
    cuts another leaf on the grass,
    shadow seeks shadow,
    then both leaf
    and leaf-shadow are lost.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don’t like beer.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)