Quotes About History

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

The past can only be accepted, it cant be forgotten, edited, or erased. And it can never be changed.

We will not be remembered for who we are. We will be remembered for the things we did.

No matter how much you revisit the past there is nothing new there to see.

In silence you hear the call to turn within. See the light that exists inside you and freely, willingly shine that light on the world. You never know the impact you can make on another persons life. You may never know if you made a difference keep shining anyway. Sometimes the best rewards are no rewards at all...One person can change the course of history. YOU are that person!

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful.

Life is like pictures in a photo album. You can look back on the moments, but you can never recapture them.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Every day of your life is a page of your history

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

It's crazy how your future is somebody else's past, and that's just cause life moves too fast.

History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young.

Appreciate your changing body, love your evolving story; and see the big picture. It all fits together because your face tells the story of your life; your changing body is a history of incredible experience.

If you look at today through the eyes of the past you will never see what the present moment has to offer.

Never look back. What's gone is now history. But in the process make memory of events to help you understand what will help you to make your dream a true story. Mistakes of the past are lessons, success of the past is inspiration.

If the past was what we were meant to see, then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.