Famous quotes containing the words history, english, high, front and/or vowels:
“Three million of such stones would be needed before the work was done. Three million stones of an average weight of 5,000 pounds, every stone cut precisely to fit into its destined place in the great pyramid. From the quarries they pulled the stones across the desert to the banks of the Nile. Never in the history of the world had so great a task been performed. Their faith gave them strength, and their joy gave them song.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“The English Bible—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Under an old oak, whose boughs were mossed with age
And high top bald with dry antiquity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:20.
“Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
—Duke Ellington (1899–1974)