Quotes about History
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
- John Updike
One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.
- John Updike
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
- Pope John Paul II
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
- Heinrich Heine
These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.
- Ronald Reagan
Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
- Marcus Aurelius
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
- Marcus Aurelius
The dregs of Romulus.
- Cicero
Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.
- Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
- Cicero