Famous quotes containing the words cross, fire and/or department:
“Pilate with his question What is truth? is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The fire I praise was once perduring flame
Till it snuffs with our generation out;
No matter, its all one, its but a name
Not as late honeysuckle half so stout....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
—Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)
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