History Quotes

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.