Famous quotes containing the words carl friedrich, carl, years and/or death:
“The freedom to share ones insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
—Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (17401792)
“The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“I have started to say
A quarter of a century
Or thirty years back
About my own life.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
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