Quotes About History

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

The Big Jump had been made. Man had finally reached the stars, and every clerk and shopgirl, every housewife, busisnessman, and bum felt a personal hysteria of pride and achievement. They swayed in dense masses across Times Square feeling big with a sense of history, sensing the opening drumbeats of an epoch in what they saw and heard from the huge news-service screens.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties.

A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.

what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

And for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history.

It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history, and no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

I love a library. Just to walk inside one, and to breathe in a room where so much literature has been gathered, is such a powerful feeling that it often brings a tear to my eye, although that could also be my mild allergy to dust.

The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.