Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, spanish and/or conquest:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,—when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, “Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.””
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)