Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently its your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“In social halls a favored guest
In years that follow victory won,
How sweet to feel your festal fame
In womans glance instinctive thrown:
Repose is yoursyour deed is known,”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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