Quotes About History

Zamani niye kaziyorsunuz boyle? Birakmiyorsunuz ki gecmis gecmisin koynunda uyusun.

There is nothing political about American literature.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Naples isn't so much the southernmost city in mainland Europe as the northernmost city in Africa.

Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven. ¿Entiendes? Viana asintió, aunque no estaba segura de comprenderlo del todo. —Ahora tú debes decidir —concluyó Oki— si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.

El mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven.

El aire es una biblioteca y registro de todas las vidas vividas, de todas las frases dichas, de todas las palabras que aún reverberan.

In keeping with the American effort to reconcile with Japan, all of them, including those serving life sentences, would soon be paroled. It appears that even Sueharu Kitamura, "the Quack," was set free, in spite of his death sentence. By 1958, every war criminal who had not been executed would be free, and on December 30 of that year, all would be granted amnesty. Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world's memory.

There sat a twelve-foot-long, nine-thousand-pound bomb called Little Boy.

I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War.

By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people.

The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.

Charlie Tilghman, who flies a restored B-24 for the Commemorative Air Force, taught me about flying the Liberator.

She kept the solstices and the equinoxes, both vernal and autumnal, the first of May, All Saints, all summers, kept them, but not out of reverence for the past.

There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.

So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very air around us bound by chains.

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

History shares some secrets, keeps others.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

The first kiss was at once passionate and chaste, a kiss that contained everything that was to mark their future together—his aching need for her, the slightest sense of reserve on her part, as if she would always hold back a piece of herself. Their last kiss contained their entire history.

How could 1906 and 1966 be part of the same century? In 1906, there had been no world wars, most people didn't have telephones and cars. In 1906, women couldn't vote and black men could by law, but not in practice.

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, he rolls onto his back

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1920's Fashions from B. Altman & Company (Dover Publications