Quotes About History

Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

The lights are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. —SIR EDWARD GREY, ON WORLD WAR

the Lincoln Memorial rose up through the gloom and snow, pearlescent, lit by beams of golden light. A house, divided against itself, cannot stand.

They had history together, after all, and she couldn't help loving him still. In spite of everything, all the pain and heartbreak and anger he'd left in his wake, when she closed her eyes at night, she missed him beside her, missed the sound of his breathing and the hope she'd felt that one day he would really love her.

You see now," Jack said. "A fight like this isn't romantic. I was in San Francisco when the National Guard went after strikers with bayonets." "People died that day," Natalia said. "Strikers. They called it Bloody Thursday.

cómo podía encontrarse? ¿Cómo podía una mujer entender su propia historia sin haber conocido antes la de su madre?

Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed.

It's open to the public, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ sometimes it's better to study politics from a nice, safe historical perspective. The real thing can be pretty ugly.

Limoges platter that had been their aunt's, several small impressionist

They say people who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it.

You know the thing about history, Elsa? It's over. Already dead and gone.

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present. I

Ya hemos pasado por malos tiempos antes y hemos sobrevivido, prosperado incluso. La historia nos demuestra la fortaleza y la perdurabilidad del espíritu humano. Al final, nuestro idealismo, nuestro valor y nuestro compromiso con los demás, con lo que nos une, nos salvarán. En estos tiempos sombríos podemos recurrir a la historia, al legado de aquella generación extraordinaria y a nuestro pasado para sacar fuerzas.

April 14 had been dubbed Black Sunday. Apparently three hundred thousand tons of Great Plains topsoil had flown into the air that day. More soil than had been dug up to build the Panama Canal. The dirt had fallen to the ground as far away as Washington, D.C.

A German walked up to her, his rifle

our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

No one was who they appeared to be in those days, mademoiselle. The Thierrys seemed to be collaborators, for example, so who would have thought that they were actually working with de Vogüé to undermine the Germans? At Piper-Heidsieck, the owners were hiding guns. At Krug, they were hiding pilots." He tapped the base of Liv's glass and added, "This champagne represents history, my dear. Heroism. Bravery. The people behind these wines helped save France.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

their strange Nazi emblem, a colorless pinwheel warped by the wind.

you don't need money or weapons or a big platform to change the world. Sometimes, something as simple as a pen and a bit of imagination can alter the course of history.

the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

But considering the way so many records were lost or destroyed in the war, it shouldn't be difficult to plant a few pieux mensonges, white lies.

They are erasing us, and we are helping them. "Because someone should remember. How else will they find their way home?