Quotes About History

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

When Los Angeles was founded in 1781—as a city of angels—by a group of eleven families, it seemed to throw out a welcome mat to people of color. After all, of that founding group—forty-four men, women, and children—twenty-six were of African descent, black or "black Spaniards," as they were sometimes called.

To probe our past beyond afarensis was to fall into a wormhole— and emerge on the other side 9 million years earlier, in the Miocene epoch.

Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide.

What the Trinidad Guardian had in 1967 called "the most empty diplomatic threat in history" had now become a reality. Two months after British economic aid to Anguilla had stopped because of the end of the Interim Agreement, the British decided to stop all economic aid.

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.

The original purpose of the rosary, as revealed to St. Dominic by Our Lady, was to combat heresy (false teachings).

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

As pointed out by David Jewitt, the name "Kuiper belt" then follows Stigler's law, which states, "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.