Sound Souvenir

Famous quotes containing the words sound and/or souvenir:

    “Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    Mark Van Doren,
    a poem of remembrance, a gift, a souvenir for you.
    Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)