Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

“ospreys
would fall like valkyries”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)