Louis Hector Berlioz Quotes

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ...

Time is a great teacher. Too bad it kills all of its pupils.

Time is a great teacher, but ufortunately, it kills all its pupils...

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all pupils

Hector (1803-69), French composer; full name Louis-Hector Berlioz. Notable works: Les Troyens (opera, 1856-59), Symphonie fantastique (1830), and La Damnation de Faust (cantata, 1846). berm   n. a flat strip of land, raised bank, or terrace bordering a river or canal.    a path or grass strip beside a road.  an artificial ridge or embankment, e.g., as a defense against tanks.  a narrow space, esp. one between a ditch and the base of a parapet.  early 18th cent. (DENOTING A NARROW SPACE): from French berme, from Dutch berm. Ber·mu·da (also the Ber·mu·das)   a British crown colony made up of about 150 small islands about 650 miles (1,046 km) east of the coast of North Carolina; pop. 58,000; capital, Hamilton. Inhabited since 1609, it now has internal self-government.   Ber·mu·danadj. & n.Ber·mu·di·anadj. & n.  named after a Spanish sailor, Juan Bermúdez, who sighted the islands early in the 16th cent.

Along with the figure of Liberty and the tricolored flag, the third revolutionary symbol to return with the Revolution of 1830 was the “Marseillaise,” the forty-year-old song that had been France’s national anthem before the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. “And the music that was there then,” recalled the composer Hector Berlioz in his memoirs about the atmosphere in Paris in the aftermath of the July Days, “the songs, the harsh voices resounding through the streets—nobody who did not hear it can have an idea what it was like.” Each night crowds gathered under the windows of the Palais Royal to sing the “Marseillaise,” and Louis Philippe would go out on his balcony and beat time for the citizens’ chorus.