Ciudad Vieja - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.”
—Terry Hands (b. 1941)

“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)