Quotes About History

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

To be able to bring an entire city together is not easy, and we definitely have one thing in common in the city - that's the Tigers. The history of the school is well-noted around town. It is an SEC kind of country with all the SEC schools, but Memphis trumps all of that in the city. I embrace that.

Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in Greg Olsen, you see how that helps a young quarterback whether he becomes a security blanket, he can turn a five-yard completion into a 15-yard gain.

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

the fires of a nation about to be born, she went out in the fiery blaze of a nation at war with itself.

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.

I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.

The demands of the slave on the present have everything to do with making good the promise of abolition, and this entails much more than the end of property in slaves. It requires the reconstruction of society, which is the only way to honor our debt to the dead...

Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or was it that each generation felt anew the yoke of a damaged life and the distress of being a native stranger, an eternal alien?

Myth is the threshold of history.

the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

DID YOU KNOW!?! That all of human history can be described entirely in terms of the interaction between contractors and middle-level management. It's all true It's impossible to lie in any language and equally impossible to tell the truth.

Punic faith.

sed plerique mortales postrema meminêre

omnia mala exempla ex rebus bonis orta sunt.

when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American.

Children are the adults of the next generation, and so our love, education, training, and modeling of all that is valuable in life will indeed shape the history of the next adult generation

Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.