Quotes About History

fact, the battle continued less than fifty miles out of the city, and it would be more than a year still before there would be peace in Europe.

Why keep a record when you can not keep a record?

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

La historia del cristianismo en su totalidad, y la historia del mundo como un todo, habrían seguido un curso muy distinto de no haberse transmutado de forma continua la teología de la cruz en teología de gloria, pasando así a ser la iglesia de la cruz una iglesia de gloria'.

Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.

History has an imagination greater than any writer," said Serge.

This was the beginning of Tampa," said Serge. "They built Fort Brooke here in 1823.

That's the problem with this generation. No sense of history. They haven't the foggiest notion of all the sacrifices that have been made so they can safely lounge about this country texting and tweeting . . .

Ochopee, smallest post office in the United States of America.

The greatest empire the world had yet seen got its start with the conquest of Ireland back in 1171. And tiny Ireland was still the most troublesome turf under the Union Jack. China, India, entire subcontinents, could be subdued with less firepower than it took to keep the Irish in place.

Meagher's Ireland.

Malta has a rich and varied faunal history, including dwarf elephants and hippos, and a giant, flightless swan that stood taller than the island's pachyderms.

Nicholas Pateshall, A Short Account of a Voyage Round the Globe in H.M.S Calcutta 1803–1804, ed. Marjorie Tipping, Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1980, 56–64.

Of course this will never be accepted by fundamentalists, but if Christianity bows to reactionary pressure to return to its authoritarian past it will be consigning itself to the dustbin of history. The modern world is simply too sophisticated to fall for the 'it must be true because it says so in the Bible' routine.

Ty and Thane walked out of the Old

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.

It's no secret that me and New York got history. It's no secret. This is no secret. It's already known.

I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.