Clay Tablets

Famous quotes containing the words clay tablets, clay and/or tablets:

“Archaeologists have uncovered six-thousand-year-old clay tablets from southern Babylonia that describe in great detail how the adults of that community found the younger generation to be insolent and disobedient.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

“Was it for this the clay grew tall?
MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth’s sleep at all?”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“Inscribe it in the remembering tablets of your mind.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)