History Quotes

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

I'm not sure history has ended.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.