Quotes about History

Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.

The first to fall in any war are forgotten.

You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.