Famous quotes containing the word sour:
“The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:36,37.
“Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let born again patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
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