Hopkins School/history

Famous quotes containing the words hopkins, school and/or history:

“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)