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)

“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)