Famous quotes containing the words event and/or history:
“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)