Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
—Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941)

“The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)