British Museum Reading

Famous quotes containing the words british, museum and/or reading:

    You don’t know Leonie. She married me to achieve insecurity, and now you’re trying to take it away from her.
    David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Morgan (David Warner)

    A fallen tree does not rise again.
    Hawaiian saying no. 2412, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)