Famous quotes containing the words wind, generation and/or facility:
“Now bury your bird, the wind it bawled,
And bury him down and down
Who had to put his trust in one
So light-eyed and so brown....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian æther, I could, with much more facility and exactness, carry in my memory and commit to paper the exuberant variety of his wit and wisdom.”
—James Boswell (17401795)
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