History Quotes

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.