Quotes About History

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

One does not have to wonder what was going through the minds of the founders of these towns e.g LEFT HAND,WV-V J SMITH Author, ROAD TRIP TOWNS WITH WACKY NAMES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

En la historia humana, los vestidos, herramientas, armas y tradiciones, toman el lugar de las pieles, garras, colmillos e instintos, para la búsqueda de alimento y abrigo. Las costumbres y prohibiciones, condensando siglos de experiencia acumulada y transmitida por la tradición social, ocupan el lugar de los instintos heredados, facilitando la supervivencia de nuestra especie.

Guardando y preservando las llamas, el hombre hizo acopio de conocimientos. Los fuegos sagrados que nunca se apagaban, como el fuego de Vesta en Roma, fueron mantenidos como ritos por muchos pueblos antiguos y por los modernos salvajes. Es de presumir que se trata de supervivencias y reminiscencias de la época en la cual el hombre todavía no aprendía a producir el fuego a voluntad.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad. And it is well that they have no sense of history, for how then would they be able to continue to squat amid their ruins, and which Indian would be able to read the history of his country for the last thousand years without anger and pain? It is better to retreat into fantasy and fatalism, to trust to the stars in which the fortunes of all are written

The past of a place survives in its poor.

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

may still be traced in the present Ajudhyá near Fyzabad. Ajudhyá is the Jerusalem

The papers of Jerry Fairbanks Studios lie uncatalogued in the basement of the UCLA research library.

We bow with respect and gratitude before all the great human souls of the past and present - the sages, the righteous, the prophets, the saints of all continents and all epochs throughout the whole of human history - and we are ready to learn from them all that they wish and are able to teach, but we have only one sole Initiator or Lord; we are obliged to reiterate this for the sake of certainty.

Is mankind therefore solely responsible for its history? Without a doubt—because it is not God who has willed it to be as such. God is crucified in it.

M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

History will catch up with us. It isn't dead more than we are. It lives in and upon us, parasitically, like the bacteria in our intestines without which we would die. If you want to see the future, keep looking steadily behind you, because the future, no matter how we may pretend we don't know it, is history.

A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious orthodoxy historically outweighs onslaught by Satanists

no hay civilización que no entrañe un cierto número de actos bárbaros y no hay barbarie que no contenga algún germen de civilización.

History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.