Quotes About History

More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.

Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The

Telah terbukti dalam sejarah keagamaan dan politik, bahwa usaha untuk menindas seorang pemimpin, akan membuat namanya semakin hidup di hati rakyat.

Feodalisme adalah milik masa lalu yang sudah mati, bukan milik Indonesia di masa depan.

Apapun yang terjadi, kami tak 'kan melupakan semboyan revolusi: Sekali Merdeka Tetap Merdeka!

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

It's an odds-on favorite that if one laid enough Mormon genealogy charts end to end, one could prove either that all these fine families are related or that at least they've all laid each other end to end.

Checkmate is from the Persian shah mat, which means 'the king is dead.

When pockets were first added to women's clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, "It's all over with men's superiority over women." Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in

Who knows how long it's been there? It could date back a few hundred years for all I know.' 'Or to Roman times,' he says, smiling wryly.

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

A tender speech is combing through the willows. In a bare whisper, the elms lean. Something about the place conjures up the ancient past: the hound, the spear, the spinning wheel. There's pleasure to be had in history.

Mary Wollstonecraft was the first person to apply the phrase 'legal prostitution' to marriage.

Here lay costume's history, robed in indignity, impossible to mend, impossible to display, impossible to throw away.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

These are people whose names are lost to history, but when you have that kind of encounter, somehow you get a whole new perspective on what's of value and how to behave in the face of oppression, and the strength that any single person or a group of people can bring with their own will.

I feel about my yarn stash as I do about my library: It is the record of much of my history, promise, potential, inspiration, learning, and space to dream.

military historian Richard Holmes.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

We are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.