Famous quotes containing the words ederle and/or history:
“When we’re in the water, we’re not in this world.”
—Gertrude Ederle (b. 1906)
“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)