History Quotes

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

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

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

In France, history is paralyzing.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.