Quotes About History

What he didn't say, because it was too heavy a burden for any man to bear, was that Aden was already a leader who was on his way to greatness. If he didn't lose his way, if he didn't break under the strain, he'd become a man who would be written of in history. To make it, he needed someone to walk with him, to hold him when things became too hard, and to fight for his right to his own happiness. Aden needed love more than anyone Walker had ever met.

You'll take her with you." Naasir looked up at Raphael. Blinked. Then snarled. "I can't be dragging around a historian. They break.

Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses.

The way it had been displayed, the way it had been discarded, that was a thing too many men had done to too many women across time.

conscientemente revisó la historia de Nikita y se dio cuenta de que, aunque a su madre siempre le había gustado el poder, lo había buscado con híper-impulso hace veintinueve años y medio. Después del nacimiento de una hija cardinal E que necesitaba toda la protección que su madre pudiera proporcionarle.

Just because we grow doesn't mean we forget our old selves. We are all created of many skins.

So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.

How do I know anything? How is it that my arms stretched out in front of me are so pale? How to I even know that they should be brown like riverbank mud, as they were when I was many goddesses with many worshippers, ruling in lands on the other side of a great, salty ocean? I used to be many, but now we are one, all squeezed together, many necks in one coffle.

She calls herself Fleet 'cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?" "British Colombia?" He looked sad. "No, Before Crack.

I bet there are still many openings and loopholes in art history ... which are being overlooked right now by millions of young people who complain that everything has already been done, so that they cannot do new breakthroughs. However, the history of the world says that we don't win the games, but we change the rules of the games.

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman.

A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!

Tyrannical fathers, oppressed daughters, and repugnant suitors are scattered throughout English history.

If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history's blessing.

assassinated just four days before. "It was like

occupying the office Hoover once

To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever witnessed the slaying of his predecessor or endured such a brutal transfer of power.

Quelle [est] la quantité minimale de passé nécessaire à la production de sens?

Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America's colonial period and British notions of poverty.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.

Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity. The

In this sense, what Hakluyt foresaw in a colonized America was one giant workhouse. This cannot be emphasized enough.

What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.