Quotes About History

All Americans are defensive. You can't help it.

one could argue that he was the most spoiled dog in the history of humankind.

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.

once belonged to Penelope (Reuben hadn't

Actually, Lacey did, some time ago,

Gott Mit Uns! Nobiscum Deus! Emmanuel! Heil Hitler! Hail Victory! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!

Cancellare il passato è un'offesa alla memoria di chi ha sofferto e all'immensa moltitudine che non è sopravvissuta.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted narratives purged.

It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

Cadelle hurried off toward the ramps that led to the upper levels. She taught history at Jewel Hive University, which Cricket had heard her describe as "a job where I teach my replacements, because what else are they going to do with this information.

Queen Glacier is dead,

About two thousand years ago

Maybe the lost continent.

Was that a prophecy?" Sunny said hopefully. "Did you see us changing the world? Like, five eggs to hatch on brightest night, five dragons born to teach history and art and get everyone to calm down and be nice to each other?" Moon laughed. "When the school has lasted twenty years, the tribes will be at peace?

a dark cave listening to Webs drone on about the ancient past? This is history, happening right now. We're in the middle of it, or we should be.

Is Princess Blaze here?" Six-Claws asked. The teacher snorted. "Do you see anyone drawing tiaras in the margins of their history scrolls? Then, no." "Do you know where she might be?" "My guess? Drooling over a pile of gems or sharing adoring sighs with a mirror somewhere," he snapped. "Stop interrupting our lesson.

Who cares about all that ancient history?

All right, he said slowly. It's a scroll.

Every HiveWing had at least a few black scales, inherited from their common ancestor, Clearsight,

As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended.

But the whole point is this: Bach had a father.' 'Heavens, Jack, what things you tell me. Yet upon recollection I seem to have known other men in much the same case.

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian