Quotes About History

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at best produce an art that is still-born. It is impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place. This is not easy to do.

Captain Thomas Walduck in 1708 neatly summarized the development of the West Indies: "Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing ye Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house.

I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Sometimes the way forward is the way back.

The second secret: The second secret may actually be the often prophesized "Illumination of the Soul". Throughout the history of recorded apparitions, locutions, and other supernatural spiritual phenomena, there has been a consistent thread of prophecy that describes an interior "illumination" of the soul that will be experienced by every living human being at a designated time. It is also called the illumination of the conscience.

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Bucket ~ A round, open vessel for carrying water (Ooops! Almost forgot—Bucket is the name of one of the most important families in the history of books featuring boys called Charlie and lots of chocolate.)

many priests and scholars can speak Sanskrit, but no one ever spoke only pure Sanskrit.

Hindu" is not a native word but comes from a word for the "river" (sindhu) that Herodotus (in the fifth century BCE28), the Persians (in the fourth century BCE), and the Arabs (after the eighth century CE29) used to refer to everyone who lived beyond the great river of the northwest of the subcontinent, still known locally as the Sindhu and in Europe as the Indus.

This is a history, not the history, of the Hindus.