Berlin/history

Famous quotes containing the words berlin and/or history:

“You had your breakfast in bed before,
But you won’t have it there anymore.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)