Quotes About History

If we are suppose to forget about the past, why do we have to take history class anyway?

Its important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

He who forgets his past is lost. If you don't know where you are coming from, you wouldn't know where you are going.

In this great future, you cant forget your past

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Forgiveness doesn't change history; it makes living with it easier.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

It was his idea to put in the Western Wall in Jerusalem the prayer asking God's forgiveness for what had been done by Christians in other ages,

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Naught is said to you but what was said indeed to the apostles before you; surely your Lord is the Lord of forgiveness and the Lord of painful retribution.

And nothing prevents men from believing when the guidance comes to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that what happened to the ancients should overtake them, or that the chastisement should come face to face with them.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

Sometimes the connection you made with other people sneak-up on you, you share experience, you have a history, you share a bond. And when they are no longer there, it hurt like hell.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.