Simple Roots

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:

    “Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
    Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
    Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
    The short and simple annals of the poor.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “The roots of the grass strain,
    Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—

    And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)