Quotes About History

Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation, the firm hold of a long history.

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

I access our history and get the usual muddle of love and competition that any two sisters share.

We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

The weight of the world comes largely from its past.

Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation, the firm hold of a long history. But I have to decide the importance of each and every memory. I only remember a handful of people, and in order to do that, I have to hold tight, because the only repetition available—the only way I am going to see them again—is if I conjure them in my mind.

Houve uma época em que éramos como vocês, só que nosso mundo não era como o seu. Vocês não fazem ideia do quanto chegaram perto da morte. Uma geração ou duas antes, e vocês talvez estivessem aqui conosco.

Defunct, adj. You brought home a typewriter for me.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

But now it's the museum backdrop for the exhibition of grief.

supremacy as the foundation of all the systems in the country."10 Within days of that meeting, with great fanfare the Times introduced its 1619 Project. Times editorial board member Mara Gay explained the project's concept in simple terms: "In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.

Violence has followed our species every step of the way in its long journey through time.

From the scalped bodies of ancient warriors to the suicide bombers in today's newspaper headlines, history is drenched in human blood.

There are unmistakable parallels between the treatment of slaves and the treatment of domestic animals. Brown University historian Karl Jacoby points out that that virtually all of the practices deployed for controlling livestock—practices such as "whipping, chaining, branding, castration, cropping ears"—have also been used to control slaves.

the common Greek term for "slave," andrapodon, "man-footed creature," was built on the foundation of a common term for cattle, namely, tetrapodon, "four-footed creature.

The more we learn about ourselves and our history, the more we are confronted with our extraordinarily violent character.

Pope John Paul I had died and been succeeded by John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope for four hundred and fifty years: a Pole, a poet, a philosopher, a linguist, an athlete, a man of destiny, dramatically chosen, instantly popular - but theologically conservative. A changing Church acclaims a Pope who evidently thinks that change has gone far enough. What will happen now? All bets are void, the future is uncertain, but it will be interesting to watch. Reader, farewell!

In Lynch's realm, America is like a river that flows ever forward, carrying odds and ends from one decade into the next, where they intermingle and blur the dividing lines we've invented to mark time.

molecular genetic studies show that there has been an acceleration of human adaptive evolution over the past 40,000 years, and especially during the past 10,000 years

En la historia de los 3.5 mil millones de años de vida en la Tierra, somos la primera especie con la facultad de controlar nuestro destino. La perspectiva de hacerlo será excelente en la medida en que conozcamos nuestro pasado evolutivo.

Quienes en nuestro pasado evolutivo no consiguieron emparejarse de forma adecuada no se convirtieron en nuestros antepasados.

Pervive en nosotros el legado sexual de esas historias de éxito.

The fact that there has never in history been a single case of women forming a war party to raid neighboring villages and capture husbands tells us something important about the nature of gender differences—that men's mating strategies are often more violent than women's.