Common Ancestor

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or ancestor:

“The last Night that She lived
It was a Common Night
Except the Dying—this to Us
Made Nature different”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“I cannot yet begin to understand
Why we are proud that an ancestor knew
The crazy Poe, who was not of our kind
Bats in the belfry that round and round flew
In vapors not quite wholesome for the mind.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)