Quotes About History

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

The last year of the Vajpayee government, 2003–04, was the best ever—not just reckoning the years since 1947 but even going back to the last century, to the years of the East India Company, to the reign of Akbar and of Ashoka, and to the time when our forefathers had discovered Pythagoras's theorem, mastered the art of organ transplant and flew aircraft to other planets.

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Treacherousgenerals:look at my dead house,look at broken Spain.

What a great language I have, it's a fine language we inherited from the fierce Conquistadors…. They carried everything off and left us everything…. They left us the words.

But from each hollow of SpainSpain comes forth.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of the past he carries with him.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

El tango se impone como la música argentina por excelencia. Ya no pertenece al tugurio ni a los salones exclusivos. Es de todos. Se escucha en los cafés y en los cinematógrafos y se baila en los clubes al compás de las orquestas típicas. A partir de la grabación de 'Mi noche triste' (1917), de Castriota y Contursi, en la voz de Carlos Gardel, se produce un punto de inflexión en la historia de la música popular rioplatense.

le ha dado a la Argentina lo único de lo que puede enorgullecerse: la independencia".

La historia que nos enseñan, siempre dispuesta a defender las políticas de Buenos Aires, pretende que la reunión de Guayaquil fue "misteriosa" y sugiere una supuesta intervención de la masonería. También se ha hecho hincapié en la "altanera soberbia" de Bolívar en contraste con el "humilde y ejemplar renunciamiento" de nuestro San Martín.

No se podía andar por el mundo mendigando piezas arqueológicas robadas por expresidentes, sin que de vez en cuando no se sintiera un profundo ramalazo de pinche vergüenza nacional.

because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli

Paul Andrew Hutton, director de la Western History Association, decía: «Crockett se ha vuelto parte de la autoidentificación como estadounidenses, y sugerir que no pereció en el verdadero estilo Hollywood era un puñetazo a sus frágiles psiques», y remataba diciendo que la versión heroica «ilustra el proceso de la fabricación comercial de un h

Por qué y cómo se construyó esta potente alegoría? ¿Qué hay detrás de El Álamo? ¿Quiénes reinventaron la batalla de El Á

La de la Revolución Mexicana es una historia en la que mucho se mata y mucho se muere, en la que la vida humana parece valer muy poco y la supervivencia es tan accidental y casual como la muerte. Avitia rescata las frases en un corrido terrible: 'Como saben que en México se mata y que a diario se muere por acá'.

His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death.

Collective memory, the foundation of any culture's narrative, is a historical; mythology, laces with figments of truth, is essential to forming a country's founding identity and maintaining social cohesion.