Small Black Powder

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

    If I’m not so large as you,
    You are not so small as I,
    And not half so spry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A black sun has appeared in the sky of my motherland.
    Wuer Kaixi, Chinese student leader. Quoted in Independent (London, June 29, 1989)

    Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)