Famous quotes containing the words dutch, empire and/or era:
“Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To Americans I hardly need to say,—
“Westward the star of empire takes its way.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)