Quotes About History

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

Time is man made - No woman would have ever invented time.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.