Quotes About History

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

Seanchan (pronounced Shanahan), Chief Poet of Ireland.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

From Archaeology one moral, at least, may be drawn, to wit, that all our school text-books lie. What they call History is nothing to vaunt of,' being made, as it is, by the criminal in us: goodness is timeless.

Animal femurs ascribed to saints who never existed, are still *** more holy than portraits of conquerors who, unfortunately, did

Two hundred years from now nobody will care much about our politics. But if we were truly moved by the things that happened to us, they may read our poems.

But ideas can be true although men die, And we can watch a thousand faces Made active by one lie: And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking; Dachau.

I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

Baseball is a ceremony, a ritual, as surely as sacrificing a goat beneath a full moon is a ritual.

As though it had always been forbidden to remember each of us grew up knowing nothing about the beginning

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).