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  • In time the Rockies may crumble Gibraltar may tumble They're only made of clay, But our love is here to stay.

    - Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
      'Love Is Here to Stay', sung by KennyBaker in The Goldwyn Follies (music by George Gershwin).

  • Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      On a matchbetween the Scottish teams Ettrick andSelkirk, published in the EdinburghJournal.

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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