Soggy Bottom Boys

Famous quotes containing the words soggy, bottom and/or boys:

    “The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
    Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
    Through living roots awaken in my head.
    But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “You shouldn’t be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don’t you try looking at the top some time?”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.”
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)