History Quotes

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.

Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

I'm a history nut.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.