“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.” HandsHurtHistoryGenerationsOffersBonesGrandchildrenPosterityMarrowPrevious Generations Author:Nikolay Chernyshevsky
“We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.” KnowsHumansBodySocialProcessHistoryBloodBuiltCreatorBonesFleshOppressionMusclesSocial ChangeFlesh And Blood Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.” ArtPhilosophyRealityHistoryPicksBonesGraveyard Author:Samuel Beckett
“A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.” IfsThinkingMenPersonsNationsBreakHistoryHealthyBonesUnconsciousNationality Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.” DoePastNamesHistoryMountainBonesAshesWrecksPedantry Book:Past and Present Source: Past and Present