Story

Famous quotes containing the word story:

“Saving one human life is better than building a seven story pagoda to the Buddha.”
—Chinese proverb.

“One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: “Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died—I want none of it.””
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)