Concrete Sleeper - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)