June 2004 - Events

Famous quotes containing the word events:

“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)