Famous quotes containing the words history, colonial and/or era:
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)