History Quotes

For a happy life,it's best we should ignore &overlook things,people,incidents,affairs & matters.It is not necessary that we show a reaction to everything. Step back & ask yourself if the matter is really worth responding to.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare plays function as an inoculation – that is, you get exposed to 'half-dead Shakespeare virus', and it keeps you from ever loving Shakespeare again, your whole life long. It would be much better if they didn't do that at all!Because [the students] have no linguistic preparation for it, and no cultural or historical preparation for it. They've not been reading English poetry, so the language strikes them as completely bizarre […] and they have no historical place to put it, so they don't know what's going on. All they know is that they're 'supposed to like it'.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

There's a story behind every I don't believe in lovePeriod

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be

~ Abhysheq Shukla

We live in a society where every business has a huge scope. Even if you open a shop selling snakes people will buy it. Thinking they will direct them to their neighbors house.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the M is silent.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......

~ Abhysheq Shukla

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How would you document the history of today?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

~ J.g. Ballard

History is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

~ Pittacus Lore

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

~ Aberjhani

Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ Kate Morton

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

~ Wendell Berry

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”)

~ George Sterling

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use, back then it was a 'broken home'...

~ Julian Barnes

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

~ Julian Barnes

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

~ Julian Barnes

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.

~ Tom Robbins

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

~ Criss Jami

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Sufferings and surprizing Adventures (as the Booksellers might indite it), I know that the great Part of the World would not believe the Passages there related, by reason of the Strangeness of them, but I cannot help their Unbelief; and if the Reader considers them to be but dark Conceits, then let him bethink himself that Humane life is quite out of the Light and that we are all Creatures of Darknesse.

~ Peter Ackroyd

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

~ R.d. Laing

Gradually it became known that the new race had a definite purpose, and that purpose was to chart and possess the whole country, regardless of the rights of its earlier inhabitants. Still the old chiefs cautioned their people to be patient, for, said they, the land is vast, both races can live on it, each in their own way. Let us therefore befriend them and trust their friendship. While they reasoned thus, the temptations of graft and self-aggrandizement overtook some of the leaders.

~ Charles Alexander Eastman

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.

~ Robert Penn Warren

The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling