Us History Quotes

The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and shadows’.

History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late.

We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.

Snuffy and the Bull is one of several short stories from a time in our history which has been woven into the quilt of America and found within the eclectic tapestry of our culture.

Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

Winners are the favourites of heaven.

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

History is the enemy of memory.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

Every one’s footprint is a landmark in the world history

Life consists of books.

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

History is nothing if not far-fetched.

The life of the spirit is enfold in great literature.

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

You can forget Stalin, ” he said, pledging his allegiance. “We’re not the History Channel.

Every sacred existence is history of time.

Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder.

The story we write today will support the next generation.

Ancient literature is a rich history.

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

There lived great souls in history.

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.

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

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.

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.