Quotes About History

There's always one, isn't there? Stryker asked rhetorically. In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of the earth was written in the blood of those betrayed by the very people they'd foolishly trusted.

The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe." "Really?" she asked. "Were you there?" His features blank, he looked up and asked, "What, for the invention of the fork or the fifteenth century?

the past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can change for certain. Have the courage to do so and make the most of it because it could be all you'll ever have.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it." - Drux Cruel

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.