Graves/history

Famous quotes containing the words graves and/or history:

    “the sweet-cupid-lipped and tassel-yarded
    Delicate-stomached dwellers
    In Pygmy Alley,”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    “We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)