Quotes About History

I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because now, the magic is everywhere.

Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?

It was scary. More than Sara could possibly know. More than anybody ought to know, or ever would. History wasn't for the general public--it never had been. ... Just one shot A professional execution. Without passion. Almost without passion. ... He held Sara's hand for the last time. And Jill came tumbling after. he thought of the words in the children's rhyme. But Jack would not fall down. The day of ultimate madness had begun. Jack and Jill had finally begun.

The Kennedy Curse is an idea that endures.

I'm Dr. Ethan Kane, director of the Hauer Institute. My senior medical staff joins me in welcoming all of you to Maryland and to Liberty General Hospital. Think of it! You've been chosen to make an extraordinary journey with us. You'll be making medical history, making some very good money as well, and this will be the best experience you've ever had. I guarantee it!

What are we but our stories

Today's lesson?" I say. "The history of slapstick." "You want me to slap you with a stick?" says Stevie.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

on Staten Island.

Nordic Classicism.

But always remember what Eleanor Roosevelt used to say." "Who?" (Gaynor's not really one for history. Maybe I can tutor him next.) "She was FDR's wife," says Uncle Frankie. "Oh. Cool. So who's FDR?" "That's not important.

to Madame Tussauds wax museum.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID, he just whipped out a quarter?

It's so old, I think when it opened, Burger King was still a prince.

Michel Foucault.

It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said

The United States Senate: the most exclusive club in the world, with more than 250 years of history unimpeded by progress.

Kilroy was here

books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with some half-decent ideas for the operation. Some half-decent ideas for Operation: Popularity:

so imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That's about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it's a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.

The house continues to call out from parts unseen, aches and hiccups and wheezes, a centuries-old creature drawing long, labored breaths. When

He and I have history;

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.