Quotes About History

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

mavourneen. They figured most of it out long ago.

Events, however, are written in ink the moment they occur, and cannot be erased.

We are what we are because of what we've been

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.

On April 4, 1968, the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, her favorite aunt, Matilda Rudolph, died in Clarksville.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages.

This novel is for everyone who has ever studied any monstrosity of history, with the serene satisfaction of being horrified while knowing exactly what was going to happen, rather like studying a dragon anatomized upon a table, and then turning around to find the dragon's present-day relations standing close by, alive and ready to bite.

Aujourd'hui, rien. That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.

Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances.

When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath.

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages." After

Vecchio è, quel che di già è fuorviato. Il vecchio ha avuto valore quando era nuovo...

He remained against Getúlio even after the 1937 coup.

All the Democrats who voted for him [Clarence Thomas] were from the South, the opposite of what had happened in 1967, when Southern Democratic senators opposed [Thurgood] Marshall. By 1991, blacks had become a core constituency of Southern senators, and Democrats feared alienating them with a vote against Thomas.

Before Sonia Sotomayor's appointment, a total of 110 justices had been named to the United States Supreme Court since its 1789 creation. All but 4 of these justices were white men, reflecting the traditional power base of the nation. Beginning with African American Thurgood Marshall in 1967, the groundbreakers navigated the public expectations and internal rituals of a tradition bound institution.

We can recognize the ego as that part of ourself that lives in our historical past, our story, rather than in the present moment.

in the Greek view, mythos (a "saying" or "story" without rational claim to truth) and history (the empirical search for truth about the past)7 were often indistinguishable;

old ways of doing things. It is the ability to make ancient truth the living memory of today. Only the elderly have lived through both the good and the bad decisions of the past. It is they, then, who have the wisdom to alert us to alternatives, to evaluate present choices from the perspective of history. The role of

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.