Quotes About History

King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is—as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.

Nicholas went to choral evensong on the Sunday, and could have wept. They sang part of a Tallis motet and he thought, If the time comes when nobody can hear this sound anymore, it will be the end.

Cross my heart and hope to die. I wonder where that comes from." "It's a reference to the crucifixion. It's like knock on wood . That's a reference to the wooden cross.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

No one sees clearly during a war. History gives perspective

La fortuna è come un pendolo che oscilla attraverso i secoli, portando l'inevitabile.

After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead.

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.

Everything you're seeing up in the night sky happened thousands of years ago, because the light takes so long to reach us," Gabriel says. "I always thought it was so strange… that sailors chart where they're going in the future by looking at a map of the past.

But not all Jews were victims- look at Chairman Rumkowski, who sat safe with his new wife in his cushy home making lists, with the blood of my family on his hands. And not all Germans were murderers. Look at Herr Fassbinder, who had saved so many children on the night that children were taken away.

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Improving your future requires study of the past; we learn traveling through life and especially from mistakes that provide lessons we should not repeat.