Germanic Heroic Age

Famous quotes containing the words heroic age, heroic and/or age:

“The drinking and fighting of the Heroic Age have retreated to the slums.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Old age equalizes—we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)