We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking History Quotes from Peter Navarro, Katie Taylor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Butler Yeats. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I’m on the right path.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We’re developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people’s lives.
America has always imported history.
I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.
Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don’t think that it does particularly. What it really teaches you is that things have not always been the same, and they don’t have to be the way they are.
‘What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
History is the great dust-heap… a pageant and not a philosophy.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.
While we read history we make history.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you’ve dreamed of.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Strip malls are history.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Of all the things we have done, the most important – the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation – is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology – the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history – the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we’ve made a niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‘Okay.’ And then I sit down and they say, ‘It’s math.’ ‘No! Not math! English, history, anything!’
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
For much of Toyota’s history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line – and empowering any team member to halt production if there’s an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone’s first language is Spanish, not English.
History is always changing.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I’m a staunch believer that we are in an earth cycle. There’s no question the planet is changing, and the fact that the Mayans had an end date and their history talks of change, I find that fascinating.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and – above all – nothing seems impossible.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
The Thames is liquid history.
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
I don’t think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
History should be written as philosophy.
The Germs’ contribution to history sucks as far as I’m concerned.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what’s right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you’re on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.
The want to return to the fold doesn’t mean you can repeat history.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
I love the fact that, if I don’t win multiple championships, that I probably won’t be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who’ve done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.
I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
I went to jail 44 times. I’ve been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom… Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
That great dust-heap called ‘history’.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
I’ve been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
I am responsible only to God and history.
Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
Strip malls are history.
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don’t remember what happened yesterday.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
History is written by the victors.
Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.
Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It’s the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
If you look at the history of innovation, the innovations coming through the defence department have been some of the most important innovations ever. Little things like drones, sensors, and the Internet of Things are defence-type initiatives, but the big one is the Internet itself.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Never, ever forget history.
I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don’t have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia – of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
Black history is American history.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.
Nobody’s ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren’t expecting some return on their dough.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Time is my greatest enemy.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history of World Wrestling Entertainment, and I say that with without embellishment or exaggeration.
You can’t supervise your own history.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.
The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It’s happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.’ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
I think history repeats itself. There’s a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it’s gender equality, the Time’s Up movement, or diversity casting, it’s always going to be a back-and-forth battle.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
The way you ‘take history’ is also a way of ‘making history.’
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
There’s a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us, but wearing crinolines. They lived in different worlds.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come… so we don’t see any reason to change our view of history.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
I’m not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It’s part of our family history.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
We must begin to tell black women’s stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word ‘Arya,’ meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn’t.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.
I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It’s not about money, it’s about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
I am writing a book called ‘The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.’ It’s of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes – those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
My dad said, ‘Go to college and take whatever you want.’ So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, ‘There’s no way I’m taking math and history.’ And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That’s just world history; you don’t have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges – but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.
History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people – brutal.
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down.
History takes time. History makes memory.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
Our history is not our destiny.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it’s a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four ‘great’ presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign.
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family’s legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.
I’m sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It has nothing to do with money. We don’t play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
I like stories in specific time periods. ‘The Revenant’s’ era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man’s land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.
Ideas shape the course of history.
Learning about our past is definitely important, not only for Australians but people around the world. It’s something that Australia should never be ashamed of. It’s part of our history. It’s part of us.
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
History is the best guide to the future.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all – the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, ‘What an atrocity that was’ then it is to say, ‘What an atrocity this is.’
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures – all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker’s accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn’t be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.
History is a vast early warning system.
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
History belongs to everyone. I don’t think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don’t think you want to write something that is impenetrable. You try as hard as you can to be readable.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It’s the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
History develops, art stands still.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded – that all people are created equal.
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that’s offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That’s my ideal.
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
I let the American people down.
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
I’ve always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don’t know why. I don’t like hot weather, and I don’t like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I’d love to go check it out.
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.
Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
We know the history of players at Real Madrid and things are not easy at that club.
I guess I’ll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I’ve made my mark on show-business history.
The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
‘The Last Kingdom”s got its roots in history, and it’s a lot grittier. It doesn’t have the ‘Game of Thrones’ gloss.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
There’s probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there’s no law governing that history. It’s finders keepers.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
History has proved that dictators can’t last forever.
I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
I think it’s important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Some claim that the Obama FCC’s regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.
I’m proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
History will decide if I’m a villain or a hero.
It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods – like airports and highways – has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
The attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the darkest moments in our nation’s history, and we will forever remember the thousands of service members and civilians whose lives were tragically taken on that horrible day.
I am responsible only to God and history.
Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world’s most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation – especially for investors – in modern financial history.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn’t easy. And, you know, you don’t end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Democrats, for their part, have chosen to go the way of reckless obstruction, pursuing the first partisan impeachment in history.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
World history is a court of judgment.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
The real world is the fantasy writer’s scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
If I didn’t have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
