Suburb/history

Famous quotes containing the words suburb and/or history:

“I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)

“Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)