Quotes About History

Reading old messages and remembering how it use to be.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

Only the dead has seen th end of war

Nothing shines up a halo faster than death Matthew. But funerals are for the living... and revising history... only dilutes the lessons we should learn from it.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

You will take his life but you can't take his memory out of us.

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.

They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.

They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.

Can't call 'em zombies anymore, " sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.