History of Aviation/progress Before World War I 1914-1918

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, progress, world and/or war:

    “Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “But no, he only said,
    “Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
    That wants me as a war might if it came.
    Ask any man.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)