Procession/history

Famous quotes containing the words procession and/or history:

“She is a procession no one can follow after
But be like a little dog following a brass band.”
—George Barker (b. 1913)

“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)