Famous quotes containing the words years and/or earlier:
“For five years I have seen her each day, and each time I believe it is for the first time.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love.... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
—William Morris (1834–1896)