Quotes About History

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

Hillary Clinton has experience, but it's bad experience.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.