History Quotes

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.