Quotes About History

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

To be a Jew is a destiny

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Learn your past, find your path.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution.

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

I've always been excited to know how we got here.

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.