Quotes About History

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived - American exceptionalism at work again.

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be.

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future.

Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts, or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it's like to live without the shield of the sea.

The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.