Athens/history

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or history:

    “Before the time I did Lysander see,
    Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
    O then, what graces in my love do dwell,
    That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “History takes time.... History makes memory.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)