Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:
“It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryants Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)
“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)