History Quotes

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

I am a fan of history.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.