Quotes About History

From the city of Caracas

Well, said Curie, with deadpan irony, how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in history.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

I love recalling those antique, nude times

as I walked through the modern Carrousel.° The old Paris is gone. A town's complexion, like human hearts, never stays put at all.

Nous avons, il est vrai, nations corrompues, Aux peuples anciens des beautés incomnues..

Podemos apostar con total confianza que, en pocos años, los dibujos del señor G. se convertirán en archivos preciosos de la vida civilizada. Los curiosos buscarán sus obras tanto como las de los Debucourt, los Moreau, los Saint-Aubin, los Carle Vernet, los Lami, los Devéria, los Gavarni, y las de todos los artistas exquisitos que, pese a haber pintado solo lo familiar y lo bonito, a su manera no dejan de ser historiadores serios.

the history of melancholia includes all of us.

it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing is promised now young girls weep alone in small rooms old men angrily swing their canes at visions as ladies comb their hair as ants search for survival history surrounds us and our lives slink away in shame.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend into Time.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning

My heart is a thousand years old.

I thought about Nietzsche. There we were: a German stallion and a Jewish mare. The fatherland would adore me.

the history of a tough motherfucker he

Listen, is it true that Celine and Hemingway died on the same day?

Dinosauria, we born

Secoli di poesia e siamo ancora al punto di partenza.

visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.

By the end of the first millennium A.D., Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold.