Conditions Quote by Carl Sandburg

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight…

— Carl Sandburg

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases;…

— Rudyard Kipling

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience…

— Arthur Keith

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go,…

— C. JoyBell C

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common…

— Salman Rushdie

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel…

— Mel Gibson

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go…

— Kevin Rudd

The history of the world is smattered with peoples being removed from the land of their birth. None of them ever got their country…

— Maureen Lipman

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

— Pat Buchanan

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

— Isaac

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go,…

— Anonymous