Famous quotes containing the words day, mourning and/or period:
“We mean to exhibit ourselves here on New Year’s day in homespun [clothing].”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to “preserve,” that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially “conservative.” A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)