History Quotes

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.