Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or planted:
“We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)