Quotes About History

Mithridates, he died old.

Like the Egyptians, the Hittites sat when eating.

There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even say, than the Israelitish conquest of Canaan.

The Hittites were intruders in Syria as well as in Western Asia Minor.

There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.

As Membij took the place of Carchemish, so Emesa or Homs took the place of Kadesh.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

In 1737, a Connecticut husband—perchance while snoring—received from his wife a shovel of hot embers in his gaping mouth,

In all likelihood, the nightwatch, not prostitution, is the world's most ancient profession, originating as soon as men and women first feared the darkness.

That said, he diplomatically added that all the participating nations wanted to reassure France that "what she has just gone through never will occur again.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

before Detroit was called the Paris of the West it was known as the Arsenal of Liberty.

Old guns rarely die, they just hang on walls.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.

nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

It is a miserable irony that the potato came from America and sent these people back to America as desperate economic refugees.