History Quotes

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

America has always imported history.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.