World Cross

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or cross:

    “How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “As I was going by Charing Cross,
    I saw a black man upon a black horse;
    They told me it was King Charles the First—”
    —Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)