Quotes About History

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

Today's future is Tomorrow's past

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

I am responsible only to God and history.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

I put my hand on the dark skin and felt the chill of centuries long gone. It was as if I had touched the Stone Age.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious than ourselves.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.