Quotes About History

American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans have, which is, well, we came from Europe. And we arrived here.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

My dad is white, he's an art history teacher, he's very traditional.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Once every woman was a living gazette, a font of delicious slanders cast in beautiful language.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

We may see by what happens in our own day how history is falsified at the very moment when events happen.

France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics.

La Société française allait être l'historien, je ne devais être que le secrétaire.

ll y a deux histoires : l'histoire officielle, menteuse, puis l'histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements.

France is the only country where some small phrase could bring about a great revolution.

Mais Paris est un véritable océan. Jetez-y la sonde, vous n'en connaîtrez jamais la profondeur.

History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.

THERE IS A general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs precisely as the newspapers of the day, or most of them, express the opinions of their readers.

Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I

He unlocked the passenger door and it groaned open. "That door is loud," I said. "And this car is a gas guzzler." "That's the point," he said. "Negro men like big cars. We don't believe in conserving energy. After all we've been through, we deserve to be wasteful.

all this time, I been asking myself, why couldn't them crackers just leave us colored folks alone? Let

Henry Louis Gates's edited The Classic Slave Narratives, which include Jacobs's as well as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, continue to be so important to me.

Sylviane Diouf's Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas is a must-read for anyone interested in Muslim history on the American side of the Atlantic.

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.