Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

    Mother I longs to get married
    I longs to be a bride
    I longs to lay by that young man
    And close to by his side
    —Unknown. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (l. 1–4)

    The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)