Oldest Operating

Famous quotes containing the words oldest and/or operating:

“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)