Famous quotes containing the words year and/or system:
“And year by year our memory fades
From all the circle of the hills.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)