Famous quotes containing the words petrified and/or man:
“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)