Quotes About History

the Europeans often believe paper over people.

What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.

The heptapods are neither free nor bound as we understand those concepts; they don't act according to their will, nor are they helpless automatons. What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.

your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented issues in the history of this music.

North Korea bought its first dozen MiG-29s from Belarus in 1995, as the worst part of the Great Famine began, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars. That would have been enough to feed every hungry North Korean man, woman, and child for two years. Estimates of Great Famine deaths ranged between two to three and a half million. As a result, these dozen MiG-29s had probably killed more people than any others in history, without firing a shot.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Where, then, does your vision of the world reside? What part of your art is drawn from history? What part is prophecy? What part is grounded in fact? What part takes wing in fantasy? These are useful questions. Do you really want to leave it to outsiders and non-artists to make up your answers for you? Many

If the Japanese ever got a foothold, British bikes would quickly become only a nostalgic memory.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

Lincoln was born on a Kentucky farm called Sinking Spring, which, a neighbor explained, was "uneven" and "disagreeable to work for farming."82 At age two, his family moved to Knob Creek, named after the steep hills called "knobs" that surrounded it, and made the ravine dark and subject to flooding.

The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made.

I concede that in the past we imprisoned, tortured, burned and massacred hundreds of thousands of people in the name of the gentle Jesus and His love. Today we've simply changed the words. We do it in the name of peace, progress and liberty.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to go to Milan because of their history and tradition in the world of football.

In Spain, we always talk about Madrid and Barca for the title and that is normal because they are the two teams with the most history.

Spain's beautiful.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

I was 22 when my mother gave me the original box set of 'Roots' and she said, 'I want you to watch this.' I watched the whole thing back to back in the span of 24 hours. It had a profound effect on me. It felt like my story.

Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.