Fireworks/history

Famous quotes containing the words fireworks and/or history:

“Always and last, before the final ring
When all the fireworks blare, begins
A tom-tom scrimmage with a somewhere violin,
Some cheapest echo of them all—begins.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)