Quotes About History

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion—and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder, studying history Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

JAMES ALEXANDER MALCOLM MACKENZIE FRASER,' " she read aloud. "Yes, I know him." Her hand dropped lower, brushing back the grass that grew thickly about the stone, obscuring the line of smaller letters at its base.

We had chosen the Highlands as a place to holiday before Frank took up his appointment as a history professor at Oxford, on the grounds that Scotland had been somewhat less touched by the physical horrors of war than the rest of Britain, and was less susceptible to the frenetic postwar gaiety that infected more popular vacation spots.

Åžimdiye kadar 18.yüzy?l leydilerinin bay?lmas?n?n korselerinin s?k? olduÄŸundan dolay? düÅŸündüÄŸümü fark ettim ama ÅŸimdi nedenini daha iyi görüyordum,bay?lma sebepleri 18.yüzy?l erkeklerinin ahmakl???ndan kaynaklan?yordu.

Diana Gabaldon

Just as my grandmother taught me, and her grandmother before her.

23 RETURN TO LEOCH

OUTLANDER A Delta Book PUBLISHING HISTORY Delacorte Press hardcover edition published 1991 Delta trade paperback edition/July 2001 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc.

You have free choice; so have all the others in this world. And history, I believe, is a cumulation of all those actions. Some individuals are chosen by God to affect the destinies of many. Perhaps you are one of those. Perhaps not. I do not know why you are here. You do not know. It is likely that neither of us will ever know. Sometimes I don't even know why I am here! - Father Anselm

Probably from Norse roots. There's a lot of the Norse influence round here, and all the way up the coast to the West. Some of the place names are Norse, you know, not Gaelic at all.

the Two Brothers stone, and that was Norse, wasn't it?

with thick stone walls and high, slitted

Diana Gabaldon

June 16, 1778 The forest between Philadelphia and Valley Forge

Highland Clans office

MacNeill of Barra Meadows

of a musket ball embedded in his

Jamie," I said, suddenly thinking of something, "do you speak German?" "Eh? Oh, aye

What Charles did to the people of Scotland—was that the 'thing' that had to happen? Or was it 'meant' to happen as it did, and Charles's real purpose was to be what he is now—a figurehead, an icon? Without him, would Scotland have endured two hundred years of union with England, and still—still"—she waved a hand at the sprawling letters overhead—"have kept its own identity?

ashes of the dead slaves fleeing on the wind, back toward Africa.

Fergus Claudel Fraser," he said, slowly and clearly.

Diana Gabaldon

It grieves me to tell you," Jamie said, and meant it. "Sixty years from this time, the Tsalagi will be taken from their lands, removed to a new place. Many will die on this journey, so that the path they tread will be called Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He groped for the word for "tears," did not find it, and ended, "the trail where they wept.

Diana Gabaldon