Threatened Historic Sites

Famous quotes containing the words threatened and/or historic:

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)