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)

    Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)