Quotes About History

Noruega fue invadida el mismo día que Dinamarca, pero los noruegos estuvieron luchando durante dos meses. ¿No nos convierte eso en unos cobardes?

Petranilla turned to the girls. "Our father was descended from Tom Builder, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Builder, architect of Kingsbridge Cathedral," she said.

the château was a church said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old churches.

British soldiers were "lions led by donkeys.

who ruled the great region of Mercia after her husband died. She fortified towns and won battles.

Dirigió una última mirada atrás. Su puente dominaba el panorama. Había transformado radicalmente la aldea. La mayoría de la gente ya no se refería a ella por su antiguo nombre de Dreng's Ferry. Ahora la llamaban King's Bridge, el puente del rey.

había cometido un asesinato en Bosnia, y un mes después, ¡Rusia estaba en guerra con Alemania!

Exactly. What about Rhodesia, and Barbados, and India? We can't be expected to ask the natives' permission before we civilize them.

The invention of the pointed arch, he wrote, was a rare event in history, when the solution to a technical problem—how to build a taller church—was also sublimely beautiful.

El fundador de la religión cristiana también causó bastantes problemas.

When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants, I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended for it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions –logical, moderate decisions –each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again?

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

Eran las cinco de la madrugada del jueves 8 de noviembre. La Revolución rusa había vencido.

PART THREE 1566 to 1573

The Romance of Alexander.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

when he heard that the Soviet Western Army Group had been encircled by the Germans, he said: 'Everything's lost. I give up. Lenin founded our state and we've fucked it up.' Then

The war was won by men like us, ordinary men, uneducated but not stupid. Fall of Giants.

El doctor Weiss, que tenía un amigo en los servicios secretos del ejército, afirmaba que había 110.000 alemanes defendiendo Berlín contra un millón de soviéticos. Con su habitual sarcasmo, dijo: «Pero tenemos la moral alta, y Adolf Hitler es el mayor genio de nuestra historia militar, así que estamos seguros de que ganaremos».

Es imposible saber lo que hará un tirano —sentenció—. La incertidumbre es una de sus armas. He vivido en la Alemania de los nazis y en la de los comunistas, y son tristemente parecidas.

Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros.»   KEN FOLLETT

que había alentado al Ejército Rojo a comportarse como unas bestias enloquecidas en Alemania…

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

Thursday, June 17, 997