Famous quotes containing the words samuel, eliot, early and/or life:
“You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth. .”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:33.
Saul to David, about Goliath.
“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)