Girdle/history

Famous quotes containing the words girdle and/or history:

    “There are no stars to-night
    But those of memory.
    Yet how much room for memory there is
    In the loose girdle of soft rain.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)