Century British

Famous quotes containing the words century and/or british:

“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)