Quotes About History

But Jewish history is far more than the static tale of antisemitism. It is also a story of constant motion that kept Jews lithe

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

The early years of statistical development were dominated by men. Many women were working in the field, but they were almost all employed in doing the detailed calculations needed for statistical analysis, and were indeed called computers.

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Graham Crackers were originally marketed as a cure for carnal strivings and masturbation.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that instead of being slaves they were just good friends.

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam's apple.

A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. 'My bad,' for example, and 'I've got your back' and 'You go, girlfriend.' They're the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.

there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten.

Jews in concentration camps had shaved heads and tattoos. You'd think the anti-Semites would go for a different look.

Michael is in a group I've been hearing a lot about lately. White men who, following eight years of a black president, feel forgotten.

A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. "My bad," for example, and "I've got your back" and "You go, girlfriend." They're the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.

In a 1975 Playboy interview, David Bowie caused a furore when he opined that 'Hitler was the first rock star. He staged a whole country.' Oddly, Bryan Ferry would get into similar hot water in a 2007 interview with a German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag, in which he praised Nazi iconography as 'just amazing' and 'really beautiful' and was later forced to make a public statement of apology.

The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself.

Britannia became the land of the Angles or Ængla Land.

Bede invented the idea of England, or at least the idea of the English as a single people.

But in Britannia it was a different story. Here the fall of

True or not, it's important to have stories ? they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Aquí lo que nos importa es preservar las raíces, que los que vengan encuentren el origen, la antigüedad.