Common Story

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or story:

    Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: “Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died—I want none of it.”
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)