Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
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Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

— Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
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