Us History Quotes

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

Your history is not your future.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero

A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

I am the keeper of my husband's history.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

In the 40, 000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for you.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.

Let us search the old highways.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

History is fiction.

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.

There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!