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)

    “The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
    —Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)