Famous quotes containing the words van, nest and/or park:
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“This face is a dog’s snout sniffing for garbage,
Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
back ...”
—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)