Quotes About History

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt.

Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago.

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,And the walls come tumbling down.

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

Look back at our struggle for freedom, Trace our present day's strength to it's source; And you'll find that man's pathway to glory Is strewn with the bones of the horse.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history.

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

My days are past.

The Norman Conquest was a Good Thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become top nation.

Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth.

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.

I've been working on the railroadAll the livelong day,I've been working on the railroadTo pass the time away.Don't you hear the whistle blowing?Rise up so early in the morn.Don't you hear the captain shouting,"Dinah blow your horn."

For they're hangin' men an' women there for wearin' o' the Green.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.