Sitting/mythology

Famous quotes containing the words sitting and/or mythology:

“Though someone is just sitting at home, misfortune can descend on him from Heaven above.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)