Hut Hand Scroll

Famous quotes containing the words hut, hand and/or scroll:

    There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    By straightening out and lifting a forefinger,
    He pointed with his hand from where it lay
    Like a white crumpled spider on his knee:
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra—Oh! God of Gods—Death is but the doorway to new life—We live today-we shall live again—In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.
    John L. Balderston (1899–1954)