History Quotes

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial ti

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

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

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.