Quotes About History

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

Barcelona is a haunted house, Vargas. What happens is that you tourists never think of looking behind the curtain.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo. —¿Qué

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo.

Paris requires more than two days," said Julián. "It won't listen to reason.

Uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro respuestas que están en el pasado.

These new Francoists are as tight as two coats of paint.

Las guerras no tienen memoria y nadie se atreve a comprenderlas hasta que ya no quedan voces para contar lo que pasó, hasta que llega el momento en que no se las reconoce y regresan, con otra cara y otro nombre, a devorar lo que dejaron atrás»

Cuéntale al mundo nuestras historias y jamás olvides que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.

Una historia de libros, de dragones y de rosas, como manda la fecha, pero sobre todo una historia de sombras y ceniza, como mandan los tiempos…

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them & they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Damals wusste ich nicht, dass der Ozean der Zeit früher oder später die Erinnerungen anschwemmt, die wir in ihm versenkt haben.

Legend has it that one of the earlier kings had it designed for his cousin's bride. It was part of a collection in the national museum until it was stolen. There have been replicas floating around for years." "I didn't know it had such history attached to it. That's fascinating," Ella murmured, eyes twinkling as she studied the necklace. "I'll have to look into it some more when I get home.

I wanted a monument to myself in granite. I wanted my face in seven different colours. I wanted I LOVE YOU in giant red letters on top of the Museum of Modern Art. I wanted a new bridge across the Hudson in my name. I wanted a three-volume history of the Greeks dedicated to my memory. I wanted a filmed version of my life in Ektachrome Commercial. I wanted the Mercedes-Benz no longer to be for Mercedes. But I have small breasts.

We see witchcraft, finally, as a deeply ambivalent but violent struggle /within/ women as well as an equally ambivalent but violent struggle /against/ women.

En esta magnífica obra escrita por Carol Gaskin y Vince Hawkins, el lector viajará por los paisajes que acogieron a estos rotundos guerreros. Conocerá sus técnicas de combate, sus códigos de conducta y, sobre todo, el honor que impulsó sus vidas hasta las últimas consecuencias. Una historia apasionante que les invito a conocer

When we think of the past we tend to assume that people were simpler in their functions, and shaped by forces that were primary and irreducible.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

The 'family', in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures that populated the family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gradually disappeared until the couple of husband and wife took the centre of the stage, and the marriage contract became constitutive of domestic relations.

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

The Connecticut River March 2, 1704 Temperature 10 degrees One of the Sheldon boys had frozen his toes. His Indian came over to look but shook his head. There was nothing to be done. Ebenezer Sheldon could limp to Canada or give up. "Guess I'll limp," said Ebenezer, grinning.