Tower/history

Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or history:

“The tower said, “One!”
And then a steeple.
They spoke to themselves....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)