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)

“There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It’s a funny thing about men, you know. They all start life being boys. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these senators were boys once.”
—Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)