Quotes About History

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

If feminism is in the water I drink, my mom's herstory is the dry land that pushes me to swallow.

When it's called slavery, it's assumed white people are doing the enslaving.

Before reading this book, I did not understand that my power and my commitment to fighting oppression lay in finding those places where my experiences of privilege and oppression seem to be at odds with one another. Lorde's work and life taught me that I must not be afraid to go to those complex and "messy" places to understand myself, the history of my people, and to learn how to use my identities in a clear and subversive way.

Nobody suspected that the World War just ending would prove to be merely the first one. Had not President Wilson proclaimed it the war to end all wars—if we jumped in and did the dirty job?

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big step for me.

Did you know I took the first space selfie during Gemini 12 mission in 1966? BEST SELFIE EVER

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

When our crew was announced, I told my wife that I'd just as soon be on a later flight because I didn't want all the press and all the attention for the rest of my life for being on the first landing. Because that's all the press seems to care about. "Who was first? Who was on the first landing?" Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon.

My salute to the American flag on the moon was my proudest moment.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Broadly speaking, the new moral history employed in this book is concerned with the nature of causation and agency in the course of human events. It attempts to explain behavior in given historical contexts by showing the relationship between principles and practice in the day-to-day actions and interactions of men and women in a social context.

The living spirit grows and even outgrows its earlier forms of expression; it freely chooses the human beings who proclaim it and in which it lives. This living spirit is eternally renewed and pursues its goal in manifold and inconceivable ways throughout the history of humankind. Measured against it, the names and forms which men have given it mean very little: They are only the changing leaves and blossoms on the stem of the eternal tree.

But Argos can do without the sons of Atreus.Ancient houses are not eternal.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The twilight zone that lies between living memory and written history is one of the favorite breeding places of mythology.

Watson knew that the lien system merely provided the shackles of the farmer's economic slavery. It was only the machinery of exploitation. How was it that cotton had fallen from a dollar a pound at the close of the War to an average of twenty cents in the 'seventies, nine cents in the 'eighties, and seven cents in the 'nineties—a level below the cost of production—and had stayed there?

The gap between living memory and written history a "twilight zone" which serves as one fo the favorite breeding grounds of mythology