Quotes About History

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why?

Palermo also seemed like a stone palimpsest of cultures stretching back over many hundreds of years.

The explosion of charity in the fourth century is one clear way in which Christ's teaching has impacted the history of western society.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

There was something about the evenings in the Hostess City, whether you started in downtown, on River Street, or on the south side. Savannah had a charm, a magnetism that pulled on anyone's heart. The rich history, ornate architecture, and continuing glamour fused the soulful sense of place and time together like an artisan weld.

The whole notion of what is black and what is Southern is a thorny issue, to say the least.

Wherever okra points its green tip, Africa has been: 'nuff said.

Given the overwhelming presence of English settlers, the warp of cookery in the colonies was English. … But from the very beginning, there were other peoples on the scene contributing brilliant streaks and splashes of color to the tapestry that was American cookery.

To this day the historical extent and importance of slavery in any given area in the Americas may very nearly be gauged by the extent and importance of okra, particularly by the degree of acceptance among whites.

In short, okra had come to be completely accepted by the Virginia gentry by the early nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century Southern cookbooks almost invariably included receipts for okra.

Such success had been impossible to envision in 1960, but the Cowboys had become more competitive. They had opened the season with their first-ever win, beating the Steelers in Dallas, 27–24, on a last-second field goal by their new kicker, Allen Green, before a crowd of 23,500.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."8

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or make it the last.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . .