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)

    “Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)