History Quotes

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

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?

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

History has been the history of warfare.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.