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 more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““Good boys they seemed, and let them love the city.
    All they could say was ‘God!’ when you proposed
    Their coming out and making useful farmers.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)