Quotables

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:55 PM

I'm looking for quotes from people dead or alive about Firefly. Not the tv show, just fireflies in general, cuz I thunk it's kinda funny. Here's some examples.

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot's last words (1890), Blackfoot warrior and orator.

"Bah! the one is the feeble glitter of the firefly, & the other the regal glory of the sun." - Mark Twain

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart." - Fred Allen

"Look at them run! They know they can't deal with a Firefly!" - Rufus T. Firefly aka Groucho Marx from Duck Soup

Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.
- Bishop Reginald Heber, Tour Through Ceylon

Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows,
And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
- Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, The Better Land

And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha

The fireflies o'er the meadow
In pulses come and go.
- James Russell Lowell, Midnight (st. 3)

Tiny Salmoneus of the air
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
- James Russell Lowell, The Lesson

Now, motionless and dark, eluded search
Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,
Rose like a shower of fire.
- Robert Southey, Madoc (pt. II)

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (l. 9)


If ya know of any, lemme know.

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