Quotes About History

Do I have to take a knee when I ask her?" Ryan asked."No, but it's traditional." Ryan rubbed the lower half of his jaw, clearly not liking the idea. "Men used to kneel when they were being knighted," Sofia pointed out."Or beheaded," Ryan said darkly.

Our family history was erased and rewritten a thousand times.

The fourteen-year-old boys, Ashton and Augustus, were the youngest offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hunt, who had been close friends to the Challons since before Phoebe had been born.

From what I've seen so far," Devon remarked, "it would be far more sensible to set fire to this rotting heap of timber rather than to try and repair it." Kathleen's eyes widened. "Eversby Priory is historic. It's four hundred years old." "So is the plumbing, I'll wager.

Let us emphasize instead that owing to complex, uneven material histories of colonization and the oppression of racialized groups within the United States, the sites of minority or colonized literary production are at different distances from the canonical nationalist project of reconciling constituencies to idealized forms of community and subjectivity.

M's plan would put Blake right up there in the history books with Alexander, with Charlemagne, with Napoleon. One of the most powerful men ever to have lived. Viceroy of the Americas.

The supercontinent Pangaea split in the Mesozoic era into the continents we see today, and resulted in extensive land movement over time.

The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.

Poetry is history to be protected, lessons to be learned, a path to change our society or prevent its demise.

as far as I knew, no kingdom had ever gone to war with another over fermented grape juice. Though

He knew what he did because all Venetians knew it.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

It's strange how you can feel guilty for a family history you didn't have anything to do with, isn't it?

I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has a history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

It's funny how family histories seem to differ, depending on whom you ask.

Huh." On occasion that's all I can say to the facts we've uncovered during our journey through the Underground project. The truth is frequently horrific. "The things we find in history are hard to understand sometimes

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future." - The Book of Lost Friends

past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

his name possibly handed down through generations like an heirloom—a coin or a favorite piece of jewelry—from long-dead ancestors who possessed no tokens to pass along, save for their names and their stories.