Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, quiet and/or revolution:
“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
Stringent laws, and that things
Do get done in this way, but never the things
We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
To see come into being.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“... his
different
quiet, not quiet at all, a tumult
of images, but what are his images,
he is blind? He doesn’t care
that he looks strange, showing
his thoughts on his face....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“We live in an era of revolution—the revolution of rising expectations.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)