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)
“We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)