Quotes About History

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.

The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.