Famous quotes containing the words true and/or histories:
“Strange to know nothing, never to be sure
Of what is true or right or real,
But forced to qualify or so I feel....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, “the sweet seriousness of sixteen,” the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,—we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)