Quotes About History

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

Death is a master from Germany.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.

People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is a very sudden thing.

She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.

All of European literature springs from a fight.