Common Middle Eastern

Famous quotes containing the words common, middle and/or eastern:

“They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
Though all was done in common as before;

They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, “I am an American. I am an American.” They finally shot him in one of those Eastern countries.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)