Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Have we, the first holders of this prosperous region, no longer a share in your history? Glad were your fathers to sit down upon the threshold of the long house. Had our forefathers spurned you from it, when the French were thundering at the opposite side to get a passage through, and drive you into the sea, whatever has been the fate of other Indians, the Iroquois might still have been a nation, and I, instead of pleading here for the privilege of living within your borders, I – might have had a country.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

History after all is the true poetry.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.

China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

The dignity of history.

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.