Quotes About History

We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

It's good to pass on stories.

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.

Who wouldn't want to be the all-time passing leader in FCS? Or in school history? At the end of the day, if that's something I accomplish, that's awesome.

There is every reason to believe that, when the coming Revolution takes place, Germany will go further than France went in 1793.

man lived in societies for thousands of years before he knew of the State

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.