History Quotes

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.