History Quotes

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them.

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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.

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

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.