Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

    “With his mother gaunt and lean
    In the valley warm and green,
    Full of baby wonderment,
    Blinking out of silly eyes
    At a hundred mysteries;”
    —Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)

    “Three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Saturdays.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual “morning in America” paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)