Famous Quotes
- I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
- I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- Eddie Izzard on History
- I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
- LeRoy Neiman on History
- I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
- Al Yankovic on History
- 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.
- Queen Elizabeth II on History
- I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
- Salma Hayek on History
- I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
- Calvin Coolidge on History
- I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
- Michael Phelps on History
- 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.
- Charles De Gaulle on History
- I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- Henry Adams on History
- I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
- Oliver North on History
- I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
- Hugh Laurie on History
- I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.
- Stephen Harper on History
- I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
- I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
- Keith O'Brien on History
- I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
- Lee Myung-bak on History
- I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
- Tony Bennett on History
- I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
- Loretta Lynn on History
- I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
- Muhammad Iqbal on History
- I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
- David Rockefeller on History
- I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
- Tim Robbins on History
- I like American history.
- Kevin Costner on History
- 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.
- David Attenborough on History
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson on History
- I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Christina Aguilera on 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.
- Elton John on History
- I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
- Jerry Saltz on History
- I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
- Martin Scorsese on History
- I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
- Quentin Tarantino on History
- I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
- Alan Shepard on History
- I normally ignore the History Channel.
- Diablo Cody on History
- I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
- Robert Frost on History
- I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
- Leonardo DiCaprio on History
- I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
- Katy Perry on History
- I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
- John Henrik Clarke on History
- I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
- John Burroughs on History
- I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
- George W. Bush on History
- I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
- Steven Spielberg on History
- I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
- Vivienne Westwood on History
- I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
- Shimon Peres on History
- I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
- George McGovern on History
- I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
- Marc Jacobs on History
- I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
- Maynard James Keenan on History
- I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
- Dalai Lama on History
- I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
- Michael Phelps on History
- I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.
- George Galloway on History
- I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
- Shigeru Miyamoto on History
- I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
- Pat Robertson on History
- I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
- Christopher Hitchens on History
- I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
- Antonia Fraser on History
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