Famous quotes containing the words common and/or years:
“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)