Quotes About History

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Once upon a time is now.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Rich with the spoils of time.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

What is past is prologue.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.