Harpoon/history

Famous quotes containing the words harpoon and/or history:

    “Absence! My heart grows tense
    as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)