History Quotes · Page 133

We all walk the earth ignorant of the art we create of history

— Anonymous

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”

— Steven Pinker

The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations

— Kofi Annan

“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.”

— China Miéville

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

— Temple Grandin

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

— Liev Schreiber

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

— Frederick Soddy

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

— Margaret Mead

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common…

— Sarah Parcak

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the…

— Peter Earle

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

The fact that 'Small Island' is 'period' is amazing for me because it's something that I've never been involved with before. Also,…

— Ashley Walters

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its…

— Philip Roth

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building…

— George Orwell

“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a…

— Wally Lamb

“So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? As far as crime…

— Anonymous

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a…

— Victor Davis Hanson

That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to…

— Epeli Hau'ofa

A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some…

— Greta Salpeter

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

8H has such an epic, storied history. You can feel that when you're in there.

— Mikey Day

A single word, though alone, can help create a new history

— Mak_786

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed...

— James Surowiecki

May not go down in history, but I'll go down on you.

— Anonymous

Everybody wants to make history into what's good for them. It's very depressing.

— Michele Lamy

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

— Kobe Bryant

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

— Edward Hallett Carr

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

— Voltaire

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

— John Piper

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

— Antonio Cassano

“I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.”

— Frank Rich

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.”

— Ramsay MacMullen

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester