Quotes About History

Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs.

Let such as say our sex is void of reason, Know it is slander now but once was treason.

You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...

In ancient Greek you use the verb ????????, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the very late blood of cities, with the hysteria of the end of the world.

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

Rape is the story of Helen, Persephone, Norma Jeane, Troy. War is the context and God is a boy.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

I get out of the car to look at it. 1922–1989

I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.

Like every Russian city, Chelyabinsk has an impressive monument to those who died during World War II.

Russians are trying to figure out who they are and where they fit into the world.

The Orthodox Church has been central to Russian identity and empire since 988,

She misses the surety of Soviet patriotism that she grew up with,

agrees that the fates of the church and Russia are inextricably intertwined.

Orthodoxy is our roots, the roots from which our country evolved,

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

Michiel Kistgens and Jan de Haes, brothers-in-law (and Mennonites), are one example of this dynamic. Among the numbers of Amsterdam merchants whom the Haarlemmer Hans Baert was chasing for payment in June 1637 were Kistgens and De Haes. On January 18 the pair had bought for f 1,25o an Admirael van der Eyck bulb weighing 18o asen. The bulb was at that moment growing in the garden of Jan Woutersz in Haarlem, and, like so many, they seem to have been reluctant to pay for their purchase.

That was the experience of the baker Jeuriaen Jansz, whom we have already encountered. In late May or early June 1636 he bought the offset of an Admirael Lieffkens-a flower that happened to be standing in the garden of Marten Kretser in Amsterdam-from the shopkeeper Heinrick Bartelsz.

Tulips, we are told, were the center of life for the bloemisten, as those who grew and traded in tulips were sometimes known.

One French tulip was called a Coquille marbr e, a marbled shell.