Rochester Cathedral/history

Famous quotes containing the words rochester, cathedral and/or history:

    The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
    Is the best can be said for a very good wife.
    John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)

    That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)