History Quotes

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Barack Obama is the worst President in 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.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.