Famous quotes containing the words indian, coinage, early, common and/or ages:
“Well, that’s a nice social problem—an Indian in the family.”
—Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)
“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Though a thousand miles apart, two lovers destined to meet are joined by a common thread.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Next time, to tarry,
While the Ages steal—
Slow tramp the Centuries,
And the Cycles wheel!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)