History Quotes

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.