Quotes About History

try to help us; you the past led us here . . .

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

Talvez tenhamos um acesso potencial a toda história arquivada nas próprias células do nosso ser psicossomático. Se assim é, devemos agradecer ao ego por nos proteger do que está além do que podemos suportar em qualquer dado momento.

remembering better times whereas naming no names some of us would rather not remember something some of us have got enough bloody nightmares already

they lift their faces to the past

1952 there were over 700 cases of polio in Detroit. Dr. Bodywork Bob had told me that. I told Rouse; he bogeyed a hole. Polio was hitting families all over town, white and colored, rich and poor, center of the city and suburbs.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

looking at the silent buildings, each one with a story to tell.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

Instead of Image, we possess Word. . . . words, unlike images, are powerful yet indeterminate, slip and slide and escape when you think you have them pinned, contain immeasurable dark interiors. An image is motionless, timeless. It gives itself to you immediately. But language moves, it exists only in time, in history, the past melting and rushing toward the future, provoking you, dancing away [ Out of the Garden ].

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.

The Nazis have given up

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.

The Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines thought the English a choleric, earthy, and volatile people, who nevertheless made good, brave soldiers. In fact he regarded their warlike inclinations as one of the chief causes of the Wars of the Roses. If they could not fight the French, he believed, they fought each other.

When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth.

Day care was intended from the start to be a weak system, as scholars of the history of childcare tell me, like a punishment for needing care because a woman didn't have a husband or some other means of support.

There are in the world no such men as self-made men. The term implies an individual independence of the past and present which can never exist. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "SELF-MADE MEN

Qu'importe si cent mille coups de fusil partent en Afrique! L'Europe ne les entend pas. Louis-Philippe, 1835

Monsieur le Gouverneur-Général, you reason in the French of France, but we reason in the French of Algeria." It was not at all the same language, as was to become tragically plain later, and in order to understand events from 1954 onwards it is necessary to accept the existence of three totally distinct peoples — the French of France, the French of Algeria, and the Muslims of Algeria.

The history of France, a permanent miracle," says André Maurois at the end of his Histoire de la France, "has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels.

Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect "not a cloud in the sky." Yet a month later, Europe would be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, marking the end of a century of Pax Britannica and all its optimistic assumptions.