Quotes About History

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But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets—as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Amadeo, the world now is yours," my Master said. "You must look at the larger movements of history.

There are gaps in my education which no one could ever fill. But, they don't matter to me. I do not need to know science or algebra or geometry. Literature and music, painting and history-these are my passions. These are things that still, somehow in hours of quiet and lonesomeness, keep me alive.

Lei non e' sempre stato un vampiro, vero? attacco'. No rispose l'altro. Avevo venticinque anni quando lo divvenni: era il 1791.

There was no place for the poetry or history which had come from a greedy mind and heart.

Write it in your histories. Describe my house as you saw it, full of paintings and lamps, full of music and laughter, full of gaeity and warmth.

How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?

But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history—is lies.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories-points in time which time itself cannot erase.

Quinn,' she said, 'we live in houses that were built by people's dreams, and we have to accept that. We have to revere the dream and realize that someday the house will go to others after us. These houses are personalities in our lives. They have their roles to play.

que sólo podía haber aprendido del mismo Marius. ¿Y dónde estaba Marius

It's still hard for me to imagine that these gentle people have broken over a thousand years of neutrality in a warning against all of our kind. They seemed so proud of their benevolent history, so psychologically dependent upon a secular and kindly definition of themselves.

We were living in Louisiana then. We'd received a land grant and settled two indigo plantations on the Mississippi very near New Orleans.…

Un monumento non ti dice che questo o quell'altro uomo è passato di lì, ma che ciò che ha provato in un punto del tempo e dello spazio continua. La luna che illuminava allora New Orleans sorge ancora. Finché saranno in piedi quei monumenti, essa sorgerà ancora. Questa sensazione, almeno qua... e là... resta identica.

I know history, I read it as others read their Bibles, and I will not be satisfied until I have unearthed all stories that are written and knowable, and cracked the codes of all cultures that have left me any tantalizing evidence that I might pry loose from earth or stone or papyrus or clay.

America destroys her big houses. Some them don't even last a hundred years.

They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.

Andrássy Út

Y es que es el alma de la humanidad la que a través de los siglos se dirige hacia la perfección, la raza humana la que cada año que pasa aprende a amar mejor y a perdonar. Yo estoy anclada en el pasado por cadenas que no puedo romper.

All I taught him of art, of history, of beauty, of civilization-all this was meaningless to him.

The Mayfairs, what are they to me? And what is a great family, a rich family?

It was an old tale. It was too old.

To witness the degree to which victorious nations simplified and cheapened the narratives of their rivals?