Large Tribe

Famous quotes containing the words large and/or tribe:

“For my desert, I helped myself to a large slice of the Chesuncook woods, and took a hearty draught of its waters with all my senses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)