Year/symbol

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or symbol:

    “A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Whatever we inherit from the fortunate
    We have taken from the defeated
    What they had to leave us—a symbol:
    A symbol perfected in death.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)