Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
—Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971)
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)