Pilgrims/history

Famous quotes containing the words pilgrims and/or history:

“Like pilgrims to th’appointed place we tend;
The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)