Famous quotes containing the words history, english, short and/or split:
“These anyway might think it was important
That human history should not be shortened.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)