History Quotes

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

History is a relay of revolutions.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.