Quotes About History

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.