Quotes About History

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the day.

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.