History Quotes

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Our history is not our destiny.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.