Germanic Heroic Age

Famous quotes containing the words heroic age, heroic and/or age:

    The drinking and fighting of the Heroic Age have retreated to the slums.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me—a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn’t dignified doesn’t worry me.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)