Oral Histories

Famous quotes containing the words oral and/or histories:

“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)