We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present – do we not?

They send in a fingerprint card or a misdemeanor citation with fingerprints on it. They’re put into a criminal history.

The school has been around for probably 50 years. There’s a lot of history here. Back in the 1980s, we had some dominating teams but we just couldn’t get to the final. We’ve been close,...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History...

It’s sad that it has ended this way. This is one of the saddest days in Twins history. Only 45 years old. . . . That’s way too early.

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his...

It’s like David against Goliath. Inter are superior. They have a team full of champions, a great history and a determination to win something after years without a trophy.

Remaking the world wasn’t always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn’t get to hold rallies.

For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly – in art and literature.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense… a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. – Bertrand Zobrist

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one...

Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea.

The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity’s most powerful and a senseless desire – the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means...

President Bush is at the helm and he is making a great deal of history.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he’s not, my mother said.

[On school uniforms] Don’t these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It’s not a new idea, either. I first saw it in...

When we’re in the story, when we’re part of it, we can’t know the outcome. It’s only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And...

He didn’t know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western ideas, but neither did he feel truly Westernised. There had been...

Author complains about “the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.

Bisnis film adalah bisnis untuk mencari uang. Orang-orang yang berasal dari bagian selatan akan memboikot film ini, bila orang kulit putih dan gadis julit coklat akhirnya hidup bahagia dimasyarakat – Eric Johnson

Satu revolusi adalah sebuah rantai panjang, yang menghubungkan penjungkirbalikan yang satu dengan yang lain.

Rakyat kami tidak takut mati. Lebih baik mati untuk kemerdekaan daripada hidup dalam kematian.

Aku bagai seekor burung elang yang dipotong sayapnya. Setiap kali Inggit memandangiku, setiap kali pula darah menetes dari urat darahnya. Memang terasa lebih berat melihat orang yang kau cintai menghadapi penderitaan daripada bila kau mengalami...

Aku hanya mampu memberikan sedikit,tetapi besar artinya bagi mereka.

You know, this was written a long time ago and it was based on history. All of Star Wars was reasonably political. It’s just that most people didn’t notice it until this episode was put...

a turning point in Egyptian history.

It’s all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That’s what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the...

History is like a constantly changing tree. The more you know, the more documents become available, the more you learn, and I have learned a lot since 1989.

History is a record of human nature in action.

But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not been more often adopted. To put it in its curtest form,...

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

USA was founded in 1776. Or so I was told. I wasn’t actually there, so I have to believe the history books—the same history books that are full of American propaganda lies.

If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our...

Orang Islam memandang Tuhanlah yang membentuk agama mereka dalam arti idealnya, tetapi dalam aspek sosial dan manifestasi sejarahnya jelas bahwa Muhammad-lah (di bawah hidayah Tuhan) yang menjadi pembentuknya.

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...

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Revolutionaries – true revolutionaries – are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend...

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to...

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization,...

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest’unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco...

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa… She was four feet tall and probably black..

Every body has role to play in the history of the world.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested–intrigued even–by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.