Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)