Quotes tagged ‘History’

“Thanks to the efforts of her father Mercy Brown, the first American vampire, is still alive today.”

— Jeff Eckerle, Marilyn Osborn, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com

“My mama says all of history was written by men, so of course they're gonna make themselves look good.”

— Vince Calandra, Amma Crellin, Eliza Scanlen, imdb.com

“Quizmaster: No, I’m here to inform you that you can expect a very big Witch Exam sometime soon. Sabrina: It doesn’t involve changing the earth’s orbit, does it? Because the last time I tried that, a little thing called El Nino happened.”

— David Lesser, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery. White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany. Everyone: What?! White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Rashid Bakr, Jeremy Tardy, imdb.com

“Stan: Uh... if I didn't care about historical accuracy, would I have stolen the actual Spirit of St. Louis from the Smithsonian? Steve: What?! Stan: The toughest part was convincing the guard I came in with it.”

— Kathryn Borel, Sam Brenner, Jeff Kauffmann, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“The past is the past. And the only direction in life that matters is forward. Never backwards.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Henry 'Pop' Hunter, Frankie Faison, imdb.com

“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient starts that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed.”

— Fidel Castro, fidelcastro.cu

“Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.”

— Fidel Castro, marxists.org

“Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.”

— Antonin Scalia, archive.org

“Sullivan’s arrival transformed Keller’s life in several ways. Not only did she learn to communicate, but she learned about race from Sullivan and began to visit the North with her Yankee teacher.”

— Erin Blakemore, daily.jstor.org

“The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, en.wikiquote.org

“To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other, and not at all—or at least only very insignificantly—interested in knowing when…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her t…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, en.wikipedia.org

“The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

— Dan Brown, amazon.com

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com