History Quotes

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

History develops, art stands still.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.