California/history

Famous quotes containing the words california and/or history:

    “But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
    —E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)