Illescas Peninsula - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)