Pivotal/history

Famous quotes containing the words pivotal and/or history:

    Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
    Caroline Bird (b. 1915)

    ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.
    Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)