Famous Quotes

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

Golda Meir on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "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."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Golda Meir

• "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

• "I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

• "The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

• "Being seventy is not a sin."

• "To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."