History Quotes

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.