Germanic Heroic Age

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

“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–67)

“Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)