Yeast/history

Famous quotes containing the words yeast and/or history:

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread—without it, it’s flat.”
—Carmen McRae (b. 1922)

“What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,—for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)