Quotes About History

Ayr?ca köle rolü için yerli halktan bir sürü siyahi insan? iÅŸe alm??lar. Bural? olmayanlar?n o tad? vermediÄŸini düÅŸünmüÅŸler. Yani zaman?nda özgürlüÄŸüne kavuÅŸan kölelerin torunlar? ÅŸimdi tekrar köle olarak güzel para kazan?yor. Güler misin aÄŸlar m?s?n?

Remember, Remember! The Fifth of November!

Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner? - Yes -And are you proud of it? -I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

Oh, we know Damocles from way back," Onosa said, waving her hand. "You do?" "Yes, indeed, Valkyrie. We're old friends. Practically. Almost. We tried to kill him once, but I'm sure he's forgotten about that. It was ages ago." "Why did you try to kill him?" Skulduggery asked. "Because we knew him." "A good enough reason as any.

They are begging us, you see, in their wordless way, To do something, to speak on their behalf Or at least not to close the door again. Lost people of Treblinka and Pompeii! "Save us, save us", they seem to say, "Let the god not abandon us Who have come so far in darkness and in pain. We too had our lives to live. You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary, Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

The Caribbean was borne like an elliptical basinin the hands of acolytes, and a people were absolvedof a history which they did not commit.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.

one of the first light bulbs ever manufactured remains lit, over a hundred years after it was first switched on.

Canterbury Cathedral: The first ever pocket watch was found in the walls of its cloister many hundreds of years ago. I decided to come, in the rain, to play with the locals and, if time permitted, attend the evening service.

In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a persons features.

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

El retroceso que sufrirá América Latina en sus condiciones de desarrollo, a situaciones existentes en décadas anteriores, es muy preocupante.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.

Such is the nature of man-made laws: ignorant of the past and insensitive to the present.

So it has been before. So it will be again.