Gradual/history

Famous quotes containing the words gradual and/or history:

“Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)