Us History Quotes

What must not be read must not be written.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5, 000 years of history.

He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Fools who don't respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

There's no crying in the rank book.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Nothing of importance happened today.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Each life contains as much meaning as all of history.

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere, Whispers of a moment suspended in time, Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.