Famous quotes containing the words laurel and/or generation:
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)