History Quotes

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteen...

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard bef...

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All obje...

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustrati...

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movi...

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy ...

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to h...

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of I...

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, firs...

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have chan...

Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond sc...

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal h...

Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, ...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philoso...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements a...

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war ...

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History know...

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Wh...

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And lo...

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books a...

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you y...

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude t...

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from th...

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of whi...

But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to t...

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men...

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied ...

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes...

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits...

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched...

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard ...

To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times ...

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own...

On the latter point, it was sometimes noted that Christians gathered together under the cloak of dar...

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're ...

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democr...

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few t...

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about t...

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for...

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and histo...

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearmen...

The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came t...

If we could learn to look instead of gawking,We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,If only we co...

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making h...

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who ...

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image f...

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow...

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, peo...

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, t...

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilli...

Whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventual...

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many ...

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectl...

From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has...

Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates mi...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From ...

I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It to...

Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one do...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefo...

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...