Savage

Famous quotes containing the word savage:

“There was nothing but that savage ocean between us and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry:”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)