Millstone/history

Famous quotes containing the words millstone and/or history:

“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 17:2.

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)