Us History Quotes
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes
Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes
Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.
It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.
Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.
I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.
The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.
This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.
Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.
I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, ‘Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete’.
Take a journey into the world of possibilities.You will be amazed with your adventure.
To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.
History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.
The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.
...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.
Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.
Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.
Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.
He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.
Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man