Quotes About History

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.