“In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe – and Jussi.”
            Opening words. 
Under the North Star
        
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Finnish writer 1920–1992Related quotes
“Hoe a row until it is done, and then hoe another one.”
Cows, Kids, and Co-ops
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”
East and West Poems, Part I, The Copperhead.
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
A Land of Plenty, regarding Australia, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”
                                        
                                        "Mr. Icky" 
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                        For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem
“I call [my music] ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.”
Quotes from interviews
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.”
Alphabet Juice (2008), p. 359.
 
        
     
                            