Famous quotes containing the words mount, cook, history, legends and/or traditions:
“My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“Even a clever wife finds it hard to cook without rice.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)