History Quotes

America has always imported history.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

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

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

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.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sour

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims t

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I am a fan of history.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.