History Quotes

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

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

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.