Quotes About History

Margate's never been easy, always hard. 'If you want a dirty weekend, go to Margate,' I always say. You can be as dirty as you like. Van Gogh and Turner, Ronnie Biggs and the Krays all went there. Romans, Vikings, Hell's Angels, teds, mods, rockers and punks, they all fought there.

Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.

I am Elizabeth Philpot, I declard, and I collect fossil fish.

Mientras contemplábamos el fósil, sentí por un momento que su espiral me absorbía y me hacía retroceder cada vez más lejos en el tiempo hasta que el pasado se perdía en su centro.

In the last analysis, we must all, Indian and no-Indian, come together. This earth is our mother, this land is our shared heritage. Our histories and fates are intertwined, no matter where our ancestors were born and how they interacted with each other.

You destroyed it with crosses and diseases and whiskey and guns.

Why young women? Why not young men?" She smiled. "Because the history of this world is written by men determined to cast women in the worst light.

What have you got against Germans? The War's over, you know.

country that doesn't grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.

The last bastion of conservatism,' she commented, 'is food.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Love goes through all times

Cruza las fronteras del tiempo y encuentra el verdadero amor" "Me llamo Gwen y soy la última viajera en el tiempo. Así empieza la aventura de mi vida

Cada época es una esfinge, que se precipita al abismo en cuanto se ha resuelto su enigma. Heinrich Heine

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

Also, the realization that fumes from the nitrate of mercury used in the felt-making process affected the nerves of hatmakers and caused their speech to blur and nerves to twitch — hence the term "mad as a hatter" — also helped the public to lose interest.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I like American history.

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.

Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World

The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

We are constantly surprised by things that have been happening for 20 years or longer. I

Great Books of the Western World.