Quotes About History

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

You didn't say there was a stone circle," I said. I felt faint, and not only from the heat and damp.

Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Diana Gabaldon

Every legend has one foot on the truth.

Diana Gabaldon

we must not speak of him; we must let him be forgotten. But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it. So.

Diana Gabaldon

I didn't want to pursue the history of John's eye any further. Other considerations aside, any discussion might lead a little too close to Wentworth Prison for comfort. However close a friend Jamie might have considered John during the last few years, I was positive that he'd never told John about Black Jack Randall and what had happened at Wentworth.

Diana Gabaldon

Live with Highlanders long enough, and every damn rock and tree meant something! Perhaps

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

Echada en el suelo, con los paneles tallados del techo parpadeando tenuemente sobre mí, me encontré pensando que, hasta entonces, siempre había creído que la tendencia a desmayarse de las mujeres del siglo XVIII se debía a los corsés apretados. Pero no, se debía a la estupidez de los hombres de aquel siglo.

Diana Gabaldon

MISCHIANZA May 18, 1778 Walnut Grove, Pennsylvania

something to do with that.

The year after I was born," I said, "there was a great epidemic of influenza. All over the world. People died in hundreds and thousands; whole villages disappeared in the space of a week. And then came the other, my war.

Un libro —cualquier libro— tenía un significado que iba mucho más allá de su contenido para un hombre que hubiera vivido en un tiempo en el que se tenía muy poco acceso a la palabra escrita

One man, a Fraser of Lovat's regiment, escaped. He meant to die on Culloden Field, Roger whispered, But he didn't.

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

We keep it so to remember," he said. "To show to the weans, and tell them when they ask—this is what the English are.

James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. Captain.