Quotes About History

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

In the spring of 1854, he moved down to "the Monte" (later called El Monte), the first exclusively white settlement in Los Angeles County, located on the stage road between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Susan Thompson's family had opened a hotel there called the Willow Grove Inn, and the Richardsons, another Brewster party family who had made it to California in 1852, had settled just a few miles away.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

Inside the mountain, inside the train, one boy kisses the other, and the other kisses him back, and there is nothing but history between them, and history is enough to make a future.

Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.

CASTLE RACKRENT Monday Morning.[A]

Madame de Staël understood literature to include philosophy, history, social and political writing.

Nobody saw Nicky killed.

Ja, her står vi nå andektige foran en slitt blå dør og vi vet ikke hvor den fører. Døren bærer spor etter menneskehender. Låsen er treg. Vi hører hvordan den knirker. Den vil ikke gi etter, den er gammel og rusten. Døren vil ikke opp. Og her, foran denne forseglede blå døren, slås vi unektelig av tanken: Hvem var det som sist gikk gjennom denne døren? Hvem låste den sist? Hva skjuler seg bak den?

Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends on the principle mode of production in these epochs.

Well-behaved women never make history.

Did her daughters really think they had a right to know everything about her past? What was it about discovering the truth that had made them both so indignant?

Was it her imagination, or did everyone in town have roots that went back to the beginning of time, complete with ancestral home and pedigree? Was one of those pedigrees hers? Were some of her roots here in this bayside town? Jamie

The Canadian tradition was, she had found, on the whole genteel. Any evidence that an ancestor had performed any acts other than working and praying was usually destroyed. Families handily became respectable in retrospect but it was...hell on history.

Nimiedades que servían para recordarle que antaño había existido el mundo exterior y que el presente era mucho más que el ayer y sus papeles amarillentos, su tinta parda y esos mapas que se desintegraban al desplegarlos.

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard

know anything about the Holy Grail, and I have to admit he ran with the ball.

Captain Myles Standish

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.

No sorprende que a lo largo de los años los latinoamericanos hayan aprendido a aceptar las imperfecciones humanas de sus líderes. Bolívar se lo enseñó.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

I'm sometimes amazed the human species survived to the present day, given the things we did to ourselves in the name of healing." p. 103, Elemental Imbalances