Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or indian:
“You are our surety to immortal life,
Gods hatred of the universal stain
The heritage, O Fear, of ancient strife
Compounded with the tissue of the vein.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“This Indian camp was a slight, patched-up affair, which had stood there several weeks, built shed-fashion, open to the fire on the west.... Altogether it was about as savage a sight as was ever witnessed, and I was carried back at once three hundred years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)