History
| Ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
|---|
|
Swan Lake (1876) |
Read more about this topic: The Nutcracker
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“... in America ... 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 (19121989)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (18431916)