Quotes About History

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Home is where we have a history.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.