Quotes About History

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think.

Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia

Take the most dangerous power in the South China Sea, China. While the century of humiliation at the hands of the Western powers "is a period etched in acid on the pages of Chinese student textbooks today

The debacle of the early years in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history, and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place.

The whole company of Buffalo Soldiers had been reduced to six men

they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.

believed that those civilizations rose at approximately the same time on the cosmic scale—and exhibited all those similarities, including the high runes—because those civilizations had all been started by people from a single earlier civilization.

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.

Spending her eighties in constant thrall to findmypast.com, familyhistory.net.au, yesterdaygeneaology.com and ancestor.com, Aunty Eily had tracked down the 1850s address of Conor Cleary's father Daniel and mother Maureen to 28 New Way, Templemore. The street still existed and the Avis car's GPS took Ryan there.

World Series in Seattle.

something about the past. Let me move forward

Moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.

Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.

Krasnopresnenskaya Nab, marching

There are millions of forgotten young men buried

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have confronted Cardinal Consalvi, the secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, saying that he, Napoleon, would destroy the Church—to which the Cardinal deftly responded, "Oh my little man, you think you're going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do?

It is fascinating to note how often in the history of Christianity the teaching concerning Jesus's presence in the Eucharist

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

their squat-walled cities were drenched in blood.

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

Me estremecí al imaginar el insondable abismo de tiempo que se abre entre el presente y aquella época en que la tierra se estremeció, levantando como una ola aquellas montañas azules que cubrieron cosas inconcebibles.