Quotes About History

Nothing new has ever happened to aq son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

In Arabic, the name Guadalajara evoked a valley of stones, a valley my ancestors had settled more than eight hundred years earlier. They had carried the disease of empire to Spain, the Spaniards had brought it to the new continent, and someday the people of the new continent would plant it elsewhere. That was the way of the world.

Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration.

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land

I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.

It was a quiet day in Tombstone.

The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it.

I've heard of you, McCrae. But I didn't know you was so old." "Oh, I wasn't till lately," Augustus said.

We rarely hear the names of these early Western photographers now, though they were quite important: Carleton

GREAT SKY WOMAN  and SHADOW VALLEY, adventures set 30,000 years

as old as seas and mountains. . . .

sepulchers.

How often had life begun on Earth, and been scalded from its face, and formed again?

Six times over several centuries, you attacked the worlds of men. Six times you were defeated, having lost approximately two-thirds of your male population in each war. Need I comment on the level of intelligence displayed? No?

I'd read a great many books, even Dharma books, but I was making this itch into one of the worst catastrophes in human history.

Mercer County, Montana.

The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap.

Generalmente, ésa es la manera en que se escribe la historia, a través de las versiones de los testigos presenciales, que no siempre corresponden a la realidad.

They were the product of crafts that have, unfortunately, gone out of style, like long dresses, love letters, and the waltz. But for Tit and Pedro the waltz They Eyes of Youth, which the orchestra was playing at Pedro's request, would never go out of style.

A total of six thousand Cholultecans perished. Cortés ordered the few priests who survived to wash the floors and walls, to rid the temples of idols and in their place to install crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

Every war is more or less a woman's war.

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin