History Book

Famous quotes containing the words history and/or book:

“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)