Man Named

Famous quotes containing the words man and/or named:

“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)