Quotes About History

ANTRE  (A'NTRE)   [antre, Fr. antrum, Lat.]A cavern; a cave; a den. With all my travels history:Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle,It was my hent to speak.Shakesp.Othello.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

ANECDOTE  (A'NECDOTE)   n.s.[   yet unpublished; secret history. Some modern ancedotes aver,He nodded in his elbow-chair.Prior.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Travelling! Young men travelling! I cannot, my dear, but think it a very nonsensical thing! What can they see, but the ruins of the gay, once busy world, of which they have read? To see a parcel of giddy boys, under the direction of tutors, or governors, hunting after — What? — Nothing; or at best but ruins of ruins; for the imagination, aided by reflection, must be lest, after all, to make out the greater glories which the grave-digger Time has buried too deep for discovery.

America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.

Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Captain James Cook was famously credited with conquering scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) by bringing barrels of sauerkraut with him to sea and feeding it to his crews daily.

As a result of the War on Bacteria, our bacterial context is rapidly shifting. One bacterium formerly ubiquitous in humans, Helicobacter pylori, which resides in the stomach, is now found in fewer than 10 percent of American children and may be headed toward extinction.62 H. pylori has been associated with humans for at least 60,000 years, and there is evidence that closely related bacteria have lived in the stomachs of mammals since their emergence 150 million years ago.

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

The Lemon Tree Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

I am indebted to the archivists

1935 Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

The pain of our history.

Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine).

She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.

Culta? Perdone que le diga, Víctor, pero es la primera persona que conozco que no ha sido capaz de leerse completo el diario de Ana Frank.

Los nombres sirven para fingir que el tiempo no pasa y, al final, son lo único que queda de nosotros.

Solo hay una cosa que paraliza el tiempo. Solo hay un hecho que deja a sus protagonistas en el pasado para siempre

someone will remember us I say even in another time

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.