Quotes and Sayings About Footnotes
-
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick -
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
-- Justina Chen -
I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
-- Paul Eldridge -
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
-- Will Cuppy