Sixteen Kingdoms Period

Famous quotes containing the words sixteen, kingdoms and/or period:

    Perhaps having built a barricade when you’re sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you’ve once taken part in building one, even inadvertently, doesn’t its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you’re tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?
    Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
    Violet Trefusis (1894–1972)

    ... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)