History Quotes
- Page 55Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
John Bruton
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
Oliver Kahn
I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
K. D. Lang
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
Brian Clough
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Henry James Sumner Maine
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Helen Thomas
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
George William Curtis
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
James M. Baldwin
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
Demetri Martin
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
Jared Diamond
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
Duff Goldman
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
John Thorn
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
Henry Louis Gates
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Douglas Hurd
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
Laurent Fabius
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Josh McDowell