Quotes About History

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Our names were made for us in another century.