History Quotes

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

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.