Famous quotes containing the words antediluvian and/or period:
“We confess that we never had much respect for that antediluvian race.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)