Quotes About History

Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet… Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English

They were lucky. They'd been given history.

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?

Juliet could still remember when Hitler had seemed like a harmless clown. No one was amused now. ("The clowns are the dangerous ones," Perry said.)

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.

We must remember these people when we are safely in the future.

A whole life could be contained in a dinner-service pattern

Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.

Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.

The moment had passed. But it had happened.

Sometimes a house has two histories. One that's less well known. One that people have an interest in keeping less well known.

What shall we do there? Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

Casarse con un marqués o con un conde resultaría de lo más romántico, pero, ¿no ha de ser un consuelo para dos personas echar la vista atrás hacia un mismo pasado?

Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King's mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting one day and had hastily tied up her curls with her garter. The King had admired the effect, and the next day all the court ladies had appeared with their curls tied back with lace

Words are our only weapons against the lies of history. We must bear witness to the truth. If we do not, those we love die twice over.' He paused. 'I will not find peace until I know how it ended.

History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

L'histoire est un roman qui a été, le roman est une histoire qui aurait pu être History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been E & J de Goncourt

is a beautiful place, she thinks, yet somehow an inhospitable one. It's a place of secrets, one that has seen too much and concealed too much to be at peace with itself.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through

That which was and is no more is hidden treasure.

I'd been to Chelsea Piers a few times over the years. It's a series of buildings constructed on four adjoining piers where the West 20s meet the Hudson River. Back in the early part of the twentieth century, it had been a thriving part of the riverfront, where some of the great ships docked in between their transatlantic crossings. In fact, according to a sign posted there, the Titanic had been destined to dock at

In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

We need to talk about ending a pregnancy as a common, even normal, event in the reproductive lives of women—and not just modern American women either, but women throughout history and all over the world, from ancient Egypt to medieval Catholic Europe, from today's sprawling cities to rural villages barely touched by modern ideas about women's roles and rights.