Pivotal/history

Famous quotes containing the words pivotal and/or history:

“Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.”
—Caroline Bird (b. 1915)

“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)