Deadly Ground

Famous quotes containing the words deadly and/or ground:

“Detestable flatterers! the most deadly gift that divine wrath may give a king!”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)