Quotes About History

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation

want to change history?" Luke made a stab at humor.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Cleopatra breathed my air,' Katherine muttered. 'She's delirious!' Chip said. 'No, she's right,' Alex said. 'Haven't you heard that thing about how, at any given moment, at least one atom of the air in your lungs was probably once in Cleopatra's lungs? Or George Washington's or Albert Einstein's or Martin Luther King's, or whoever you want to pick from history?

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

I'm a time officer, sworn to uphold the sanctity of history.

Tanis sözleri tekrarlad?, aynen o zaman onlar? söylediÄŸi gibi... Sözler ilham verici deÄŸildi, tarih çaÄŸlar? boyunca yank?lanacak cinsten de deÄŸillerdi. Fakat dünyay? kurtarmak için ileri at?lm?? garip, tamamen farkl?, al???lmam?? bir grup arkadaÅŸ hakk?nda bir ÅŸeyler söylüyordu Mutfaktan d??ar? ç?kaca??z!

Standing now astride two cultures, Olive had unwittingly made history: she was the first known tattooed white female in the United States.

Pourquoi nier l'évidente nécessité de la mémoire?

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. ( Tourists in Paris )

y no estaba segura, de repente, de no haberle amado con un amor que le hubiera pasado inadvertido por haberse perdido en la historia como el agua en la arena y que lo reconocía sólo ahora en este instante de la música lanzada a través del mar.

Traveling is a great distraction. Everyone has always traveled, the Greeks, the Phoenicians: it has always been so, all through history.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie