Famous quotes containing the word fragment:
“Every woman is like a time zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lostthat is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilizationis to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)