Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:
“We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from lifes very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.”
—Jane Addams (18601935)
“With one days reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!I know of no reading of anothers experience so startling and informing as this would be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
Related Phrases
Related Words