History Quotes

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

I am a fan of history.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

History is more interesting than politics.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.