Quotes About History

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!" we yelled. "Stalin is dead! No school today..." was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

He who controls the present, controls the pen that records the past and thus is the owner of the brush that paints the future.

It feels sadder when a black person says Nigga Because it sounds like Nigger.

Nothing saddens me more Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord. No word leaves me more graced by shame.

The real work of relationships is not occasional, or even daily: it is minute-to-minute. In this triggered moment right now, which path am I going to take? Rather than being overridden by your history, you can stop, pause, and choose.