Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, general, hospital and/or era:
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)