Quotes About History

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

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It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?