History Quotes

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.