Quotes About History

Nuestra desgracia fue haber sido hombres normales en una época que no lo era.

When I look back to this period, and remember it was less than twenty years from the end of a world war in which the Japanese had been their bitter enemies, I'm amazed by the openness and instinctive generosity with which our family was accepted by this ordinary English community.

Fences, what are they? Stage design. That's the nice thing about England. Hedges give a sense of history properly set down in the land.

A significant difference between Pacioli's book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was new in Europe, and Pacioli is believed to have provided the first printed explanation.

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.

When the plague struck Chicago, the townspeople here erected the gargoyles, and nary a soul was lost to the Black Death." "The bubonic plague predates Chicago by about five hundred years." He lowered himself to the bench. "I know. I was very disappointed when I found out. Almost as bad as when I learned there were no fairies. The world is much more interesting with goblins and plagues." "Unless you catch the plague.

Yeah yeah, h said. I waited. She was decent. Although technically, she's still naked. You're sch a perv, she turned on to me. Okay, kitty. Lead on. We'll try to keep up. Yeah,good luck with that, Rafe said. If she runs, we're history.

Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.

I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get history like that back home

Prior to 1830, the majority of ecclesiastical history and the Church fathers saw the Church enduring unto the end as an overcoming, glorious people. All that changed with the revelation of a 15-year-old girl not baptized with the Holy Ghost, not covered by a local church, and perhaps delirious with fever!

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

You are the most perverse man in the history of my memory. So lie there and die very slowly, creep.

Paul Starr, whose authoritative history of the media, The Creation of the Media

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.

Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.

At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.

Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)

the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

Erik said: "But the Aryan race must be superior—we rule the world!" "Your Nazi friends don't know any history," Father said. "The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids when Germans were living in caves. Arabs ruled the world in the Middle Ages—the Muslims were doing algebra when German princes could not write their own names. It's nothing to do with race.

Alemania estaba transformada. Hitler había erradicado el desempleo, algo que ningún otro dirigente europeo había conseguido hacer.

A Woodrow Wilson no lo amedrentaba la guerra. Su obra de teatro favorita era Enrique V, de Shakespeare, y le gustaba la cita: Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores.

A veces la Unión Soviética parecía más un monasterio medieval donde todo el mundo había hecho voto de pobreza y obediencia.

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.