Quotes About History

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

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This election in Ga will be the most important in history, you have nothing to worry about unless you are a tax payer, parent, gun owner, cop, person of faith, or an unborn baby!

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

I've been writing seriously since the 90s and my first manuscript was a "hysterical." I was in love with Vikings back then but somehow my Vikings sounded like Navy SEALs on horses. I guess my love for Navy SEALs can be traced back to those Viking sea marauders!

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives Of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed. (quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

To know one's history, is, as in psychoanalysis, to work towards one's own emancipation, and a democratic ideal of liberty of thought cannot dispense with the study of history, if it is to approach the present without prejudices.

Every human being is an archeological site.

Did you know the New York Stock Exchange originated in a small café on Wall Street? It was run out of that same café until 1817.

Solitude is an Anglo-Saxon concept.

shutters as old as Herman Melville.

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.

Il padre gli aveva regalato un libro con l'incendio di Troia in copertina, e lui, da grande, non trovò pace finché non scoprì i resti dell'antica città di Priamo. Non

History is the daughter of time.

az 1500 és 1544 között Németalföldön m?köd? összesen 133 nyomdászból 66 - vagyis több, mint a fele - Antwerpenben él...

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world