Quotes About History

On the list of european royalty's leisure activities, "overrunning Poland" has historically been a close second to "sex".

You wouldn't know an Ionic entablature if it bit you on your portico.

The term machine learning entered the lexicon in 1959, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

The Great Goddess—the Divine Ancestress—had been worshiped from the beginnings of the Neolithic periods of 7000 BC until the closing of the last Goddess temples, about AD 500. Some authorities would extend Goddess worship as far into the past as the Upper Paleolithic Age of about 25,000 BC.

Archaeological, mythological and historical evidence all reveal that the female religion, far from naturally fading away, was the victim of centuries of continual persecution and suppression by the advocates of the newer religions which held male deities as supreme. And from these new religions came the creation myth of Adam and Eve and the tale of the loss of Paradise.

Love poems, discovered in Egyptian tombs, strongly hint that it was the Egyptian women who did the courting, oftimes wooing the male by plying him with intoxicants to weaken his protestations.

The image of Eve is not our image of woman.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

O tempo Ä— o eterno construtor de antigamente.

Besides, wars never begin. When we awaken to them, we realise they started long ago.

África teve duas grandes tragédias: uma foi a chegada dos brancos; a outra vai ser a partida dos brancos. - Quem disse isso? - Li em qualquer lado. - Aposto que foi um branco que escreveu. Deixe que sejam os pretos a escrever sobre eles mesmos.

Todo nuestro presente estaba hecho de pasado.

Ocupada en darles nombre, se le ha escapado su historia.

Los esclavos no dejan recuerdos, ¿sabéis por qué? Porque no tienen tumba. Un día de estos, nadie más tendrá tumba en Kulumani. Y nunca más habrá memoria de que aquí hubo gente... —Abuelo, vamos a casa... —Ahora ya no hace falta que nos metan en barcos. Santo Tomé está aquí, en Kulumani. Aquí vivimos todos juntos, esclavos y dueños de esclavos, los pobres y los dueños de la pobreza.

Aqui só há outroras, isto é água riscando fósforos.

Engano seu... Nenhuma guerra termina nunca.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

In discussing the slave trade, it is essential to view those trafficked first and foremost as human beings, with families, cultures, and sensibilities – no different from anyone else.

The transatlantic transport of all of these various Africans to the Americas qualifies as the quintessential moment of transfiguration, the height of human alienation and disorientation.

Across that time span "Hoover Dam" and "Boulder Dam" were used interchangeably, the preference often depending on the political leanings of the speaker. The matter generated so much confusion and acrimony that in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1947 a letter writer named Frank Romano Sr. was provoked to propose that the structure in Black Canyon be named "Hoogivza Dam.