Quotes About History

Los romanos solían levantar columnas y arcos de la victoria en honor a la gloria del emperador y del Estado.

retreat to Dunkirk. I didn't hear for nearly

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.

Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?

This isn't the first time the world's been upside down and it won't be the last. It's happened before and it'll happen again. And when it does happen, everyone loses everything and everyone is equal. And then they all start again at taw, with nothing at all. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.

Oh, Rhett, why do there have to be wars? It would have been so much better for the Yankees to pay for the darkies—or even for us to give them the darkies free of charge than to have this happen." "It isn't the darkies, Scarlett. They're just the excuse. There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do—yea, passing the love of women.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!

In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta. When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.

There will never again be men like them, said Carreen softly. No one can take their places.

And these children will never talk of anything else either. They'll think it was wonderful and glorious to fight the Yankees and come home blind and crippled—or not come home at all. They all like to remember the war, to talk about it. But I don't. I don't even like to think about it. I'd forget it all if I could—oh, if I only could!

Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold.

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

two of Ma's darkies

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.