Quotes About History

David Dary, in Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries

English is in fact the most Latin, and the most French, among Germanic languages, while French - for reasons that we will see - is the most Germanic among Latin languages. The French and English languages share a symbiotic relationship, and that should come as no surprise, as their histories have been inextricably linked for the past ten centuries.

name—Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco—Bol

Tout empire commence par un grand crime", il avait entendu cette phrase dans une conversation sans savoir de qui elle était mais elle lui avait plu.

Tout empire commence par un grand crime", il avait entendu cette phrases dans une conversation sans savoir de qui elle était mais elle lui avait plu.

It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.

Cultura e un cimitir de c?r?i ?i de alte obiecte disp?rute pentru vecie.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Have you all forgotten that I am Henry's spawn? And Anne Boleyn's . . . a name that does not pass my lips, but is forever on my mind? Who can doubt the courage of a woman who faced the ax by lifting up her long hair with a smile?

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

Roland, the flower of chivalry, Expired at Roncevall." Thomas Campbell. "Hero-worship endures for ever while man endures." Carlyle. "Roland, the gode knight." Turpin's History of Charlemagne.

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

Le développement de l'encéphale s'est surtout accéléré au cours des derniers 500 000 ans pour donner à Néandertal le plus gros cerveau qu'un hominine ait jamais possédé. Les 1 400 à 1 500 cm3 du cerveau de nombreux néandertaliens dépassent les 1 350 cm3 de la moyenne actuelle.

Les données de la génétique, de la paléontologie et de l'archéologie concourent pour démontrer que l'homme moderne a émergé en Afrique il y a environ 150 000 ans, avant de sortir du continent entre 60 000 et 50 000 ans.

Le développement de l'agriculture est très récent à l'échelle de l'évolution humaine : moins de 10 000 ans, et souvent seulement 5 000 ou 6 000 ans, sont loin d'être suffisants pour une évolution biologique significative.

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

We're born in the museum, it's our homeland after all...

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

The history of publishing under the Third Reich has rarely been studied: it is a painful and fascinating example of the destruction of an entire culture which could exist only by way of books.

A history lesson disguised as a story,

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

transept leading to the old cloister. The cloister itself, save for part of the old scriptorium and the boundary walls, had fallen to ruin centuries ago after the dissolution of the abbeys, leaving only a few moss-covered stumps of arches to bear witness to Henry VIII's devastation.

What happens in stories is what happens in stories: the telling and retelling simplify and reduce. History gets written in the wind that keeps blowing; if it's not too strong you don't even notice it. The lights are bright and there's so much shouting and scrambling.