Quotes About History

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

We all need to make sure that we fully understand our country.

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.

There won't be any more parades after this war. There aren't any now.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

Granma and Granpa wanted me to know of the past, for "If ye don't know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don't know where your people have been, then ye won't know where your people are going.

Where are the snows of yesteryear?

No one has ever satisfactorily explained why witches have mostly been women. Since witch accusers have also often been women—probably more often than men—the explanation cannot simply be man's fear and hatred of females.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story. It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

It sounds nicer than it seems in the book, she would say. I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story. It is a story, Sara would answer. They are all stories. Everything is a story—everything in this world. You are a story—I am a story—Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anything.

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Everything's a story — You are a story — I am a story.

Everything's a story. You are a story - I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

Everything's a story. You are a story -I am a story. - Sara Crewe

history is not a mere lesson in a schoolbook, but is a relation of the life stories of men and women who saw strange and splendid days, and sometimes suffered strange and terrible things.

As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.

The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims—bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.