Quotes About History

Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memory, we will allow them to do it again next time.

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Real history is the commonplace, unrecorded.

is even worse than fear for oneself. The shadows of madness became longer as the day progressed, and even though it was certain that crime could have no permanence, it was unfortunately uncertain how long and how far God would permit this trial to go, for I am sorry to say that in history there are many examples of extended periods of darkness.

By 1914, approximately 85,000 Jews resided in Palestine, of whom about 35,000 had arrived in recent decades.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans tried to kill us, the Persians, the Tatars, the Magyars, the Africans, the Germans, everybody. But we stay together, and we move on, and we keep one thing in mind, to survive, and that is our greatest secret.

I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.

He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

To visit Florence without visiting churches and museums would be perverse.

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Mrs. Anne Pickett, who made history in 1841 when she established the state's first commercial cheese factory in Fond Lac County.

Auto historians credit Wisconsin automakers with developing numerous technical innovations, including the steering wheel, the seat belt and the muscle car.

As protection from the weather and robbers, miners regularly dug burrows into the sides of the bluff. A visitor remarked that the holes looked like they had been dug by badgers, hence Wisconsin's nickname became the Badger State, according to a history of the state written by former governor George W. Peck in 1908.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and non of them easily fits the British experience.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and none of them easily fits the British experience.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself