History Quotes · Page 124

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

— Julius Wellhausen

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

— Jacques Dubochet

“Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.”

— Habeeb Akande

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

— Thomas Menino

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

— Jonathan Lethem

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

— Bernard Hopkins

“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,”

— Jack L. Chalker

The Citizenship Amendment Act is a historic law. It has fulfilled wishes of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.

— Ram Nath Kovind

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

— Seth Moulton

The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

— Dan Lipinski

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

— James Lovelock

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good…

— Bruce Willis

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history…

— Shannon L. Alder

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

— Wilson Greatbatch

I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and…

— Nicola Cornick

“As the pretensions of modernity are unmasked today, it is a good time for us to recover our nerve, “always being prepared…

— Michael S. Horton

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“By the time that poem became the story “River of Names,”* I had made the decision to reverse that process: to claim…

— Dorothy Allison

“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“I do not grieve for him as a wife, as Anne Devereux has grieved for her husband William Herbert. She promised him…

— Philippa Gregory

“It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like…

— Hilary Mantel

We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

— Peter O'Toole

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

— Rory Stewart

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

— Peter Max

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

— Donald Tusk

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

— Hubert de Givenchy

Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.

— Hillary Clinton

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

— G. M. Trevelyan

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

— Mary Cassatt

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

— Ondino Viera

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

— Deion Sanders

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

— Kristine Lilly

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

— James Robertson

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

— Hillary Clinton

“- What will History say? - History, sir, will lie. As always.”

— Bernard Shaw

“History is an omelette. The eggs are already broken.”

— Orson Scott Card