Quotes About History

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

I was here too. VM.

the face is a road map of life.

It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.