“Bleach the green from the pastures”
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
My Favourite Thing
Song lyrics, Diorama (2002)
Inscription on Virgil's tomb in Naples (tr. Bernard Knox).
Attributed
“Bleach the green from the pastures”
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
My Favourite Thing
Song lyrics, Diorama (2002)
“Like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On playing golf : as cited in The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 27 ISBN 0312340044
Early career years (1898–1929)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Habit of Perfection", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
Karen Blixen book Out of Africa
First lines.
Source: Out of Africa (1937)
Context: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Maggie's Farm
Themistocles (-524–-459 BC) Athenian statesman
Statement to his son, as quoted in Familiar Quotations 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723 http://books.google.com/books?id=pus-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA723 <br class="br">Originally quoted in Plutarch, Themistocles http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0074%3Achapter%3D18%3Asection%3D5 (18.5): (5) Of his son, who lorded it over his mother, and through her over himself, he said, jestingly, that the boy was the most powerful of all the Hellenes; for the Hellenes were commanded by the Athenians, the Athenians by himself, himself by the boy's mother, and the mother by her boy. (Bernadotte Perrin, Ed., via Perseus Project) <br class="br">Original Greek http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0074%3Achapter%3D18%3Asection%3D5: "(5) ποῦ ἂν ἦτε νῦν ὑμεῖς;’ τὸν δὲ υἱὸν ἐντρυφῶντα τῇ μητρὶ καὶ δι᾽ ἐκείνην αὐτῷ σκώπτων ἔλεγε πλεῖστον τῶν Ἑλλήνων δύνασθαι: τοῖς μὲν γὰρ Ἕλλησιν ἐπιτάττειν Ἀθηναίους, Ἀθηναίοις δ᾽ αὐτόν, αὐτῷ δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου μητέρα, τῇ μητρὶ δ᾽ ἐκεῖνον."