History Quotes

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.