Famous quotes containing the words gershwin and/or volume:
“De t’ings dat yo’ li’ble
To read in de Bible—
It ain’t necessarily so.”
—Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)