Quotes About History

So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.

We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.

We have been Trojans; Troy has been.

This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

In the early 1600s, for nearly two decades, Virginia and Bermuda were the only English colonies in the New World. Here, for the first time, English, Indians, and Africans had to learn to live together. After four hundred years, there is still much to learn.

1870, even though the Hohenzollem Emperor, William II, pressed the family to establish a branch of the bank in his capital, the Rothschilds refused. As things turned out, it saved the family from large financial losses, but it was not shrewdness

When before, through all the centuries of this island's history, has such a theme matched such a pen?' commented the Spectator.

Books about colonization in early America more typically dwell on themes of politics, trade, religion, demography, and warfare. Without discounting the importance of these topics (for each has a place here) and with no intention of offering a monocausal explanation for complex events, this book argues that sometimes mundane decisions about how to feed pigs or whether or not to build a fence also could affect the course of history.

History is the story of people's lives. History reflects the consequences of their choice and actions – both good and bad. History is what has given you the world you live in today – both good and bad.

That is the Bregdan Principle… Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person's story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don't have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else's life. Someone else's decisions. Someone else's future. Both good and bad.

Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person's story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don't have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else's life. Someone else's decisions. Someone else's future. Both good and bad. My

There are times in the writing of history when we must use words we personally abhor.

Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person's story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don't have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else's life. Someone else's decisions. Someone else's future. Both good and bad.

In the sixties, a power struggle started which still hasn't been won.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Pretender que los hombres y las mujeres se llevaban mejor antes de los años setenta es una contraverdad histórica. Nos frecuentábamos menos, eso es todo.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.

In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.