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)