Quotes About History

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

Memories just get richer with time.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA