Famous Quotes
- When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
- When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
- Rahm Emanuel on History
- When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
- Evita Peron on History
- When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
- Robert Anton Wilson on History
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver on History
- When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
- Arundhati Roy on History
- When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
- John Malkovich on History
- Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
- Hillary Clinton on History
- Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
- Wendell Phillips on History
- Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
- Nikita Khrushchev on History
- While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
- Eric Alterman on History
- 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.
- Mattie Stepanek on History
- Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
- 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.
- William Butler Yeats on History
- Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
- Saul Williams on History
- With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
- Stephen Jay Gould on History
- With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
- Walter Lang on History
- With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
- Jon Meacham on History
- Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
- Ted Nugent on History
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse on History
- Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
- Erica Jong on History
- World history is a court of judgment.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on History
- World history is tragic.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on History
- World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
- Jon Meacham on History
- World War II was the last government program that really worked.
- George Will on History
- Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
- Steve Jobs on History
- Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
- Joan Rivers on History
- Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
- Michael Bloomberg on History
- Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
- Joan Rivers on History
- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
- Babatunde Olatunji on History
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
- David Attenborough on History
- You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
- Etta James on History
- You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
- George M. Humphrey on History
- You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
- Peter Abrahams on History
- You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
- Jawaharlal Nehru on History
- You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
- Stephen Ambrose on History
- You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
- David Hockney on History
- 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.
- Leopold Von Ranke on History
- You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
- Alan Shepard on History
- You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
- Jean Chretien on History
- You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
- Alexander Haig on History
- You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
- Arthur Ashe on History
- You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
- Tom Hiddleston on History
- 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.
- Michelle Obama on History
- 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.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- George Eliot on History
- 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.
- William Butler Yeats on History
- You're going to relegate my history to a month.
- Morgan Freeman on History
- Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on History
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