History Quotes

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

Strip malls are history.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.