Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

    Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)