Borrowed

Famous quotes containing the word borrowed:

“Thought can but share
Belief—and the tormented soul,
Changing confession to despair,
Must wear a borrowed robe.”
—Austin Clarke (1896–1974)

“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)