Interstate 71 - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)