Famous quotes containing the words east and/or passing:
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The smooth sizzle of a passing motorcar.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)