Nostalgia Quote by Norman Davies Download Open image “Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.” — Norman Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia Post war Standing Start War Wars Winners
Memorial day: Remember those who fought for us in the past, those who are today and those who will win in the future. — Faith Barroa Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
“Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
As well as remembering the service of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries of the first world war, we have also to remember what happened… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Remembrance Day is a timely reminder that, in what may be some of Britain's darkest hours, it is the bravery of millions of ordinary… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
“Appreciation and remembrance are two vital tools that can advance our progress in life.” — WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM Copy Share Image
“What horrifies me most about war memorials is that no anti-war sentiments are ever displayed. It's as if war is fun or noble, when… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's wars, it… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable” — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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