History Quotes · Page 112

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

— Christina Baldwin

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past.”

— James S.A. Corey

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

— Will Durant

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

— Jeff Vandermeer

“Write about daily life as you would write history.”

— FLAUBERT

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

— James A. Garfield

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,…

— Frank Herbert

United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede…

— Paul Scholes

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

— Jenna Wortham

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always…

— Warren Mundine

“I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In…

— Alejandro Zambra

[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread…

— Hugo Black

Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow…

— Richard Engel

“No doubt even more unforeseen denouements lie in somebody's archive, though few remain to care about them.”

— Anthony Heilbut

“Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image.…

— Russell Kirk

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

— Karl Marx

There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations…

— Ravida Din

Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,…

— Simon Schama

“Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information…

— Nicole Krauss

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the…

— Carl Jung

“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a…

— Jodi Picoult

Black women I'm talking to you, because it's not white women, it's not Latino, it's not Native American - I checked, it's…

— Summer Walker

History was made the day Chubby Checker went on 'Bandstand' with 'The Twist.'

— Chubby Checker

To witness history and science being made in front of your eyes is the rush.

— Ginger Zee

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift.

— Anonymous

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

Our nation's history cannot be undone. And we should not try to rewrite it either.

— Nancy Mace

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

— Alexander Dreymon

“I understand that my memories are important to history.”

— Clint Hill

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

— Steven Knight

“We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.”

— Katherine McIntyre

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

— Mary Lee Settle

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

— Terry Venables

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

— Anonymous

Salute For those who made the history of South sudan with their blood

— Mabor Maker Kulang

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

— Jacques Dubochet