Quotes About History

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

David McCullough, John Adams

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like gargoyles.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

Why would a comediotic guy like Buzz Aldrin worry about who said what first? He was on the %$#@!+-oon!

You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck, would it have killed you to read a book?

By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The future isn't ahead of us. It has already happened.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

Atlantis will rise again.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?