Small Black Powder

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

    “From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “Or were I in the wildest waste,
    Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
    The desert were a Paradise,
    If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “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)