Quotes About History

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the 'golden age' of real estate.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.