Illescas Peninsula - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)