Quotes About History

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

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

recommend Ann Mah's The Lost Vintage,

Where? Where did he go?" "East." Eva took a deep breath. "To a work camp called Auschwitz. In Poland." "But that's impossible. He was taken less than a week ago. And we live in France, Eva. This doesn't happen in France." "I'm afraid it does." Eva could see the crush of people penned up at Drancy each time she closed her eyes. "But we left Poland. We—we are French." "We are Jews.

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

A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honourable place in history.

There are really only two civilisations in Asia worth talking about – China and Persia.

Looking back now, it's hard not to conclude that the anxious nominal party of the economic left, Democrats, was magnificently played by the committed and confident economic right, Republicans, for forty years. I'm not saying the shift in popular sentiment wasn't partly organic. But Democrats, after the Republican presidential landslides of 1972 and 1984, remained too dazed and confused and scared for too long.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its first viral cultural phenomenon.

From the 1940s through the '70s—when our richest citizens were paying rates of 70 and 80 and 90 percent on the millionth dollars they earned each year—U.S. productivity and GDP per person and median household income after inflation all doubled.

In other words, America was founded by a nutty religious cult.

In 1848 the Homeopathic Medical College was founded in Philadelphia, eventually becoming the Drexel University College of Medicine. Homeopathic M.D. degrees were issued by schools across the country to many thousands of homeopathic physicians.

When somebody asked Alexander Hamilton why the Framers hadn't mentioned God in the Constitution, his answer was deadpan hilarious: "We forgot.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Wer die Enge seiner Heimat begreifen will, der reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.

Menschen haben immer Menschen gequält, heute sieht das nur anders aus.

On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

En los textos antiguos, "explícito" significaba "repentino" e "inesperado". ¿Lo sabías?

When her last name had still been Voronova