History Quotes

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.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

History, a distillation of rumour.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.