Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

“Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passé abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)