Shake

Famous quotes containing the word shake:

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

“I’ll shake the bees
from the thyme-heads for you,
and gather mint.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)