Quotes About History

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.