Root Beer Float

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

    “Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “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)

    “The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to
    the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
    They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
    They do not think whom they souse with spray.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)