Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or period:
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)