Portolan Chart - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)