Quotes About History

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The work of memory collapses time.

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.