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)

“History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)