Modern Swing

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or swing:

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And then came the most devastating thought of all: I was one of them. I who used to swing upside down on a living horse, who always danced when mere walking would have done, so glad was I of life, so full of health. It was the most gruesome thought I had ever had in my life.”
—Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)