Quotes About History

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. —GERARD RYDER

In the ancient world, blue was a breed of darkness.

volvió hacia Clay—. Nate también era amigo mío. ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que nos conocemos? ¿Veintidós años? ¿Veintitrés? No creerás que yo haría una cosa así. —No estoy diciendo que lo hayas hecho tú personalmente. ¿En qué

Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug.

la Ruta de la Seda, que no estaba hecha de seda y que, en realidad, no era sino un sendero estrecho que se abría paso a través de un paisaje desértico, inhóspito y elevado que corresponde a lo que hoy es Siria, y se dirigía a un paisaje desértico, inhóspito y bajo que corresponde a lo que hoy es Irak.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will then or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not . . . but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories.

artifacts of her race that made him cringe

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!

By order of the Higher SS and Police Leader . . . all male Jews between the ages of 17 and 45 convicted as plunderers are to be shot according to martial law. The shootings are to take place away from cities, villages, and thoroughfares.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

German industry's unprecedented exploitation of slave labor became a crucial element of the Holocaust.

Wartime collaboration with the Nazis frequently

Private German banks and businesses used the SS registration data to take over about 5,000 of the most prosperous Jewish companies in less than eighteen months, according to contemporary SS reports, and liquidated about 21,000 smaller Jewish businesses to make room for competing German enterprises.

Wolff was successful in that effort and wrote of his "special joy (besondere Freude) now that five thousand members of the Chosen People are going to Treblinka every day.