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Sussex quotes

  • I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easyat Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champme  dy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

    - StephenVincent Bene  t
      'American Names'. Bury My Heart  At Wounded Knee was used by Dee Brown as the title of a book on the Indian genocide (1971).

  • If Pulp Fiction had been set in the Sussex countryside and I'm sure it could have workedthen things might have turned out very differently.

    - Hugh Grant
      Contrasting Four Weddings and a Funeral with a notoriously violent urban US drama. Speech at the British Academy of Film and Television  Arts award ceremony, reported in Screen International, 28  Apr.

  • Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to me In a fair groundin a fair ground Yea, Sussex by the sea! See Book of Common Prayer142:42.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'Sussex'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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