Quotes About History

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?"As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2, 000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

[History is] petrified imagination.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.