Hervey Allen was a famous Author from USA, who lived between December 8, 1889 and December 28, 1949. He/she became 60 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by Hervey.
6 Famous quotes by Hervey Allen
"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages"
"Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded"
"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void"
"Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"
"In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized"
"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested"
