History Quotes

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.