Middle Bronze Age

Famous quotes containing the words middle, bronze and/or age:

    “Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
    Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
    Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
    When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)