Quotes About History

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Our history is not our destiny.

War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

In the history of the United States, we find that women were regularly preachers on the American frontier. Ironically, Baptists, who in some fundamentalist churches now bar women ministers, had more female preachers than any other denomination. Women pastored almost half of all Baptist churches in the state of Maine in the mid-nineteenth century. This was also the case in almost half of the Baptist churches in Michigan and Wisconsin.

post-war redomestication of women was the watchword in the wider culture. As a result, the 1950s historically reflect the period when a growing middle class enabled the most widespread imposition of the nineteenth-century Doctrine of Separate Spheres.24

life is not a technological ladder, it is more of a cultural wheel.

Communards died here, in 1871. They fought all night among the gravestones, then surrendered at dawn. The soldiers put them against this wall, shot them, and buried them in a common grave." "Are you a communist, Ilya? In your heart?" "Oh yes. Aren't you?" "No. I just want to live my life, to be left alone." There was a moment's silence, then Ilya said, "Now, a matter of some delicacy." They turned

Jesus, the world's a slaughterhouse. Really it is. If you're weak they're going to cut your throat—ask the Armenians, ask the Jews. The bad people want it their way, my friend. And how badly they want it is the study of a lifetime.

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

the prototype version of the Internet, the Arpanet, was developed in nineteen sixty-nine, at UCLA. Nineteen sixty-nine.

we'd stood up to Hitler and the Nazis with the rest of the Allies.

A girl from the Bund Deutscher Mädel, the girls' version of the Hitler Youth, came and collected him.

Germany surrendered. Hitler committed suicide. The Nazis are through.

Because that's what Nazi Germany was: the bully who found your most painful wound and poked at it with a stick.

The Yamato will be here soon, and it'll smash those American ships!

Almost four years ago, the Japanese had sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor, a US naval base in the Hawaiian Islands.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Slave owners invested a growing amount of capital in their slaves: by 1861, almost half the total value of the South's capital assets was in the "value of negroes.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.