Quotes About History

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.