Quotes About History

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Jim Crookes, chief architect at BT, has observed, "Companies get the systems they deserve. A company's systems estate is a result of its culture, organizational history, and its funding structures. Coherent, well-integrated systems will only ever exist in companies that value coherence and integrated service.

Histoire de l'Empire Mongol

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.

Life has only one form: forgetting,

The physical book really has had a 500-year run. It's probably the most successful technology ever. It's hard to come up with things that have had a longer run. If Gutenberg were alive today, he would recognize the physical book and know how to operate it immediately. Given how much change there has been everywhere else, what's remarkable is how stable the book has been for so long. But no technology, not even one as elegant as the book, lasts forever.

The truth would be difficult to speak, but it would be necessary to begin to right the wrongs done to Blacks and Coloureds. Reconciliation would not be a gift, but an 'exchange for truth.' In other words, peace and justice are inseparable from each other.

Generations are fictions.

Interestingly, vinifera is native to the same ara of southwestern Russia as the original Indo-European peoples, whose prehistoric migrations carried the Indo-European language and the vinifera grape to all parts of the ancient world.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

Much of history results from apparently unrelated dominoes tumbling one over another.

Even fifteen years earlier, it would have been impossible, since there were very few cars (eight thousand as opposed to fourteen million horses) and fewer drivable roads. With the exception of train travel, the average American rarely ventured more than twelve miles from home, because that was the distance a horse and wagon could comfortably cover from there and back in a day.

Christmas was not officially restored as a full holiday in Scotland until 1958.

Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth." "Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.

Most people don't seem to appreciate a person as honest as me. So don't ask me how George Washington ever got to be president.

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird.

Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. If it hadn't been, he would never have made it to the White House, and who knows what the United States would look like today. Or if there would even be such a thing as the United States. And

O'Neal bit his tongue and said little. Years later, however, he admitted that the anger was real. "Do I hold a grudge about that? Yeah—I do," he said. "Some fucking dickhead kept me from being the first unanimous MVP. Some asshole who doesn't know shit gives his vote to Iverson and fucks up history. I never forgot that.

History also shows that salaries never go back to an old level. All this reminds me of the old commentary that goes, 'When a man with money meets up with a man of experience, the man with experience usually ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience.' I have no intention of going bankrupt signing wealthy players.

It's a familiar moment to students of history: the late stage of empire, hairline fractures shooting through the foundations of society. They're like cracks in the sidewalk; by the time you see them, the damage has already been done.

Walt Disney admired Mussolini and in 1938 quietly hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, a month after Kristallnacht.