Pilgrims/history

Famous quotes containing the words pilgrims and/or history:

    “Like pilgrims to th’appointed place we tend;
    The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)