Yard/history

Famous quotes containing the words yard and/or history:

“Look, we’re all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house—in the bedroom he’s asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he’s rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he’s paying his taxes, in the yard he’s raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he’s making a bomb to blow it all up.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)