Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”
    —Helen Prejean (b. 1940)

    “Thus Winter falls,
    A heavy gloom oppressive o’er the world
    Through Nature shedding influence malign,
    And rouses up the seeds of dark disease.
    The soul of man dies in him, loathing life,
    And black with more than melancholy views.”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)