Girl/history

Famous quotes containing the words girl and/or history:

“Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)