Famous Quotes
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson on History
- History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
- Robert Anton Wilson on History
- Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
- Ron Fournier on History
- Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
- Herbert Hoover on History
- Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
- Robert Anton Wilson on History
- How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
- Polly Toynbee on History
- Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
- Barry Goldwater on History
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells on History
- Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
- H. G. Wells on History
- 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.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
- Annie Lennox on History
- I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
- Mike Mills on History
- I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
- Marco Rubio on History
- I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
- Elayne Boosler on History
- I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
- Nikki Giovanni on History
- I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
- Robert Caro on History
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
- James A. Baldwin on History
- I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
- Jon Meacham on History
- 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.
- John Thune on History
- I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
- Camille Paglia on History
- I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
- Thomas Huxley on History
- 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.
- Robert Fulghum on History
- I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Julius Caesar on History
- I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
- Boris Becker on History
- I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
- Queen Elizabeth II on History
- 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.
- Wendell Berry on History
- I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on History
- I did not come to NASA to make history.
- Sally Ride on History
- I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
- Demetri Martin on History
- I do consider myself part of black history.
- Mary J. Blige on History
- I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?
- Denis Leary on History
- I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on History
- I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
- Pablo Picasso on History
- I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
- Bobby Flay on History
- I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
- I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
- Vivienne Westwood on History
- I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
- Usain Bolt on History
- I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
- Shigeru Miyamoto on History
- I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
- Salma Hayek on History
- I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
- Bill Nighy on History
- I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
- Rashida Jones on History
- I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
- Colin Powell on History
- I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
- Morgan Freeman on History
- I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.
- Seann William Scott on History
- I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
- Rahm Emanuel on History
- I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
- Andrea Jung on History
- I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
- Kanye West on History
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