Continuation/history

Famous quotes containing the words continuation and/or history:

    I believe it was a good job,
    Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
    Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
    To the continuation of their creed
    And their lives.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James (1843–1916)