Quotes About History

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.