History

“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes.”

““We have always been driven by the same entrepreneurial spirit since 1926.””

“We had equality till Britain came.”

“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.”

“إن في هذه التربة دفئاً خاصاً، وفيها حرارة ضوء تعطيها إشعاعاً وسحنة سمراء محروقة، من خلالها يمكن أن تبصر بعض سمات حضارتنا القديمة، وبالأخص الحضارة السومرية فهي الأقرب إلى طبيعة تكوين هذه التربة.”

“I’m not a classic historian; I’m a contemporary historian.”

“Unirea Moldovei cu Țara Românească, cheia boltei fără de care s-ar prăbuși tot edificiul național.”

““No Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle.””

“Certainly no 20 years in the history of aviation, and probably no 20 years in the future, will show such a succession of basic changes…as did the period of 1948–1968.”

“今之學者，讀古人書，多訾古人之失；與今人居，亦樂稱人失。”

“Dziś, kiedy namiętności przygasły, nadeszła pora, by wyrzec o Steinkellerze zdanie bezstronne, skreślić bieg jego działań publicznych i oddać cześć pamięci zasłużonego krajowi obywatela.”

“You cannot, as someone put it, emigrate from your own time.”

“The Church is its future as much as it is its past.”

“The people of China have been searching for rule of law for thousands of years.”

“أنا لا أعيش في الماضي، لكن الماضي يعيش فيّ.”

“History is prophetic.”

“The whole past is a dream and a shadow!”

“We are lagging behind in the knowledge of our own history.”