Arrivals Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures.…

— Elisabeth Lenk

“This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.”

— Charles Nicholl

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs

— Lord Byron

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind…

— Grace Lee Boggs

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

— Francois Arago

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

— Willis Polk

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

— George Eliot

“A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

“That is all. Two epochs met. A silly little girl and an old poet.”

— Lina Kostenko

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

— Le Corbusier

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

— Winifred Holtby