Famous quotes containing the word fragments:
“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
—Allan Bloom (19301992)
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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