Chimney/history

Famous quotes containing the words chimney and/or history:

“Now he sings of Jacky Horner,
Sitting in the chimney corner,
Eating of a Christmas pie,
Putting in his thumb, O fie!
Putting in, O fie! his thumb,
Pulling out, O strange, a plum.”
—Henry Carey (1693?–1743)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)