Jerusalem/history

Famous quotes containing the words jerusalem and/or history:

“And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)