Quotes About History

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

My first ancestor, Abjar son of Abjar, mounted on his horse outside the city walls, had stared back at the tongues and shouted, After me, the deluge!

Well, the British do have the right to boast about their history, you know, especially about that great king of theirs, Ricahrd the Lionhearted. But even without our teaching you all this, they were participating in the process of rendering our country holy by spilling our blood. Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other their histories.

Pero como aquí —observó Nucha, formulando sencillamente una observación histórico-filosófica de bastante alcance— no ve uno sino las atrocidades de los señores de otro tiempo... parece que son las únicas que le dan en qué pensar... ¿Por qué serán tan malos cristianos los hombres? —añadió entreabriendo los labios con cándido asombro.

All true histories contain instruction;

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Es un raro placer que nos ahorma hallar un viejo libro con la ropa que usaba en aquel tiempo, creo que un privilegio. Cogerle de la mano venerable, calentarla en la nuestra y dar un paso o dos hacia el pasado, al tiempo en que era joven.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As

Maybe history really boiled down to how the hell did we happen to happen?

Look around you, Mr. Groyne. This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

This is where every nation draws its first breath. Women have been paying the blood tax since time began.

No es necesario tener mucha inteligencia para hallar detrás de cada guerra las mismas causas.

People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.

ON THE night of December 21, 1919, together with two hundred and forty-eight other political prisoners, I was deported from America. Although it was generally known we were to be deported, few really believed that the United States would so completely deny her past as an asylum for political refugees, some of whom had lived and worked in America for more than thirty years.

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?