Quotes About History

Their musical names remained forever fixed on the American land, but their bones were forgotten in a thousand burned villages or lost in forests fast disappearing before the axes of twenty million invaders.

The greatest concentration of recorded experience and observation came out of the thirty-year span between 1860 and 1890—the period covered by this book. It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

Indians!" Sitting Bull shouted. "There are no Indians left but me!

Women in the West who insisted on wearing the full-skirted modes of the nineteenth century—including the hoop-skirt, the bustle, and Mother Hubbards—fought a continual battle against a hostile environment. The fact that flowing yards of silk and satin eventually won out over buckskin and rawhide is only one more confirmation of the theory that woman's vanity can conquer all, any place and any time.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

God has been acting honorably throughout history regrading what He wants. We're the ones at fault. God is good. And I still really, truly like Him

The most common lesson of history is that the butchery of one mass of people by another is, in the minds of the butchers, sanctioned by their god.

Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman, Satan the first consultant, and God the first entrepreneur.

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.

Untuk itulah ia membutuhkan teknologi, sekadar jadi pembatas buku dari halaman-halaman waktu.

What is even more remarkable is the fact that as late as 1923, an American medical textbook advocated bleeding for treating certain infectious diseases, such as pneumonia!

Your body is the physical record of your life story as you've lived it until today.

Dreams have a long history of delivering messages. At the very least they have been considered meaningful and mysterious.

Someone once told me, The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

El pasado es historia, el futuro un misterio, y este momento es un regalo. Es por eso que a este momento se le llama presente".

The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the 'present.

Life is too short to learn everything by experience," Mattis told reporters after the event. "In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully."

The question remains: When did he graduate from person to myth, and from myth to legend? The legends may not be true, but they are definitely real to the world at large.