Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or sweden:
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“It is true that this man was nothing but an elemental force in motion, directed and rendered more effective by extreme cunning and by a relentless tactical clairvoyance .... Hitler was history in its purest form.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“And the whole of the soul, Swenson,
As every man in Sweden will concede,
Still hankers after lions, or, to shift,
Still hankers after sovereign images.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)