Quotes About History

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England.

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent "city states." Each city state was based on a main city, such as Venice, Florence, or Milan, and had its own customs and language. Even today, many people think of themselves first and foremost as Venetians (from Venice), or Florentines, or Sicilians, and only then as Italians.

Romulus and Remus There is a legend that the city of Rome was founded by twins called Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned when babies, and a she-wolf looked after and fed them. When they grew up, they founded the city at the spot where they themselves were discovered. This statue of the wolf and her babies can be seen on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. A caged female wolf also is kept here, in memory of the legend.

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.

Rome was built on seven hills in the wide plain of the Tiber River, about 16 miles from the sea. It was the center of the ancient Roman Empire, and many magnificent Roman remains survive today, including the Forum, the Colosseum and the Catacombs. The city is the seat of the Italian government and a major industrial center. Rome's long history has earned it the name "The Eternal City.

Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.

Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now? Page 76

Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh, I don't know.

Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Não há futuro sem memória. Por isso os antigos chamaram à Memória a mãe de todas as musas. O espaço cercado das cidades actuais, na sua azáfama diária, no seu trânsito caótico, nos seus eixos projectados para a periferia, parece ter consumido, portas dentro, os próprios ecos do passado recente.

I'm adhering to the core of 2000 years of gastronomic history.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

A quién no le atrae su propio pasado?

Una presencia móvil pero sin vida. Una presencia de olas oscuras, insensibles. Testigo de la historia, testigo inútil porque no sabe nada de la historia. ¿Y si el mar fuera Dios? También un testigo insensible. Una presencia móvil pero sin vida.

El Olvido está lleno de Memoria

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

Markaz Dirasat al-Adab al-'Arabii wa-Dar al-Huda 2001; 16al-Suyuti, al-Rasa'il al-'ashar, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al- 'Ilmiya, 1409 AH/1989 CE, p. 54; 'Ali ibn Taj al-Din al-Sinjari, al-karam fii akhbar Makka wa'l-bayt wa-wulat

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.