Pagoda/history

Famous quotes containing the words pagoda and/or history:

    “One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)