Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

“Daughter daughter whistle
And you shall have a sheep”
—Unknown. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (l. 17–18)

“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)