History Quote by Michael Baigent

“in March 1314, Jacques de Molay, the grand master, and Geoffroi de Charnay, preceptor of Normandy, were roasted to death over a slow fire.”

— Michael Baigent

“Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one grand act…

— Spook Country William Gibson

“Touch the Fire #131”

— Shirley Larson

“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat'…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards”

— Charles Dickens

“The process of history is combustion.”

— Novalis

“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.”

— Herman Melville

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“The Master Hunter and His Witty Ocelot     Book 1: The Hunt for the Ancient Relic   Mark Mulle   PUBLISHED BY: Mark Mulle Copyright © 2017”

— Mark Mulle

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“After a moment he added, "Though if you do find it necessary to execute me, I request that my funeral include a tower of…

— Curtis Craddock