Famous quotes containing the words augustine and/or calls:
“What is time, then? If nobody asks me, I know; if I have to explain it to someone who has asked me, I do not know.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)