Year Period

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or period:

    “A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
    Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie still,
    My hundredth year is at an end. I think
    That something is about to happen, I think
    That the adventure of old age begins....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the “best men,” as the Algonquins called them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)