#blast

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure. ↗

— Joan Jett

#doing #good #had #home #i

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#blasts #brave #derision #efforts #first

Have a blast while you last. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#last #while #you

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#feet #four #hair #hoarse #neck