Song Originally Performed

Famous quotes containing the words song, originally and/or performed:

    “Even their song is not a sure thing.
    It is not a language;
    it is a kind of breathing.
    They are two asthmatics
    whose breath sobs in and out
    through a small fuzzy pipe.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    “Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)