Quotes About History

I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.

Úgy hozta hát a véletlen, hogy lássam a király lefejezését a White Hall udvarán, és lássam az els? vért is, amely a király megbosszulására kiontatott a Charing Crosson. Polcokat állítattam be dolgozószobámba.

He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box.

Bear in mind that the novel--no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective--is always an historical projection of its own time.

Will sex between humans ever lose its endlessly repeated history?

History is cyclic, not repetitive.

But right now I want to answer his question." He turned back to Lorq. "But to tell you—" he walked to the wall and gazed out across the city—"I have to tell you some history. And not what you learned at Causby.

The history of science fiction tends to be the history of its editors.

next half dozen papers went from July 14, 2022, to July 7, 1837 (Headline: ONLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS TILL THE DEATH OF HARLOW!)

By many a temple half as old as Time.

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Remember the Alamo

The ancients don't let go of powerful things. Ever.

What kind of books do you want?' the librarian enquired. 'Local history,' I said. She shook her head and muttered darkly, 'They'll be scattered.' I wasn't sure what that meant. It's the sort of thing people say at crematoriums, not libraries. She kept staring at me, so I left without any books.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

What Tomi liked best was school, which had opened late in the fall of 1942.

Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

You are thinking of the past." I put my arms around her. She'd risen from childbed too soon. "We are the past," she said.

What does he do for a living? Is he retired?" "He took early retirement as a professor at the University of Barcelona after his wife died. He's writing some kind of history book." "Okaay. And is this the real deal, long term,

La historia nunca es espontánea. Incluso, rara vez es una cadena de eventos

It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past.