Quotes About History

La mayoría de las supuestas organizaciones Sufis, ejercicios y "órdenes" sólo son de interés arqueológico.

Las formas han cambiado a través de los siglos obedeciendo al mundo externo al cual toda forma pertenece.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb

In 1950, there were four hundred thousand jukeboxes on location serviced by fifty-five hundred jukebox operators.

On August 7, 1948, Hank made his first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride. He was the fifth act on the opening 8:00–8:30 p.m. segment.

Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.

History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

We have been married to the French for more than 230 years . . . and in marriage counseling with them for more than 230 years;

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.

Japanese children were kept out of California classrooms as late as 1907 on the theory that they lacked the aptitude for higher learning.

His eyes widened. "You mean the symbol we use for peace began as a hate symbol against Christianity?" She nodded. "It was a visual representation of the way Nero crucified Christians upside down.

The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.

Off with his head—so much for Buckingham.

What isn't widely known about the Buffalo Soldiers stationed at Fort Duchesne is that many, if not most, of them were Freemasons.

The Masons have done little in the centuries since to rid themselves of their perceived reputation as a festering cauldron of dark intrigues and the mystical arts.

Both northeastern Utah and northern New Mexico have a four-or five-decade history of intensive, sustained anomalous activity involving hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people subjected to bizarre, unexplained phenomena. These communities exist far off the main highway system.