Uncle Traveling Matt

Famous quotes containing the words uncle, traveling and/or matt:

    Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn’t a understood it.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    I see before me now a traveling army halting,
    Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
    Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    I’ve got to go. That’s one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
    Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)