Historical Quotes
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.
Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.
I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.
Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.
He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed.
Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.
As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.
9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.
I don't know, Benes. I'm not sure I've ever really understood women for that kind of commitment.' He flipped his beer mat up int the air with his index finger and caught it in his hand.
One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.
I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time.
All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)
How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.
Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down.
The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...
If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods.""Yes, there are...
I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
The end is but a new beginning for the eternal "Ba.
THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURGPROLOGUE"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.
Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.
Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!
Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.
Mothers cry in anguishand fathers curse in anger, while others turn away in sadness, all for the children who are lost.
Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val’s eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas’ unthinking remark.
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.
I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together.
There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun
As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.
You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'""Women don't have opinions.""Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.