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)

    “Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)