Root Beer Float

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

    “Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
    Upon the brook that brawls along this wood.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Time grows dim. Time that was so long
    grows short, time, all goggle-eyed,
    wiggling her skirts, singing her torch song,
    giving the boys a buzz and a ride,
    that Nazi Mama with her beer and sauerkraut.
    Time, old gal of mine, will soon dim out.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I may be smelly and I may be old,
    Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,
    But where my fish float by I bless their swimming
    And I like the people to bathe in me, especially women.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)