History Quotes · Page 147

I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.

— Max Verstappen

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

— Jack Nicklaus

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

— Hope Edelman

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

— Robin Williams

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

— Tony Judt

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

— Hilary Mantel

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his…

— Hendrick van Loon

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of…

— Earl Browder

“…the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

— Richard Dawkins

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

— Bethany McLean

“Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond…

— Vera Caspary

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

— Hilary Mantel

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on…

— Lori Greiner

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,…

— George McGovern

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not…

— Paterson Joseph

The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history…

— Vandana Shiva

Why would I talk about the past when I got a bright future? What kind of money is the past gonna make…

— Riff Raff

“I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes,…

— Trevor Noah

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…

— Carrie Mae Weems

Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind…

— Meghan McCain

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the…

— Frankie Boyle

“...the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake." A History Play, Waterborne ”

— Linda Gregerson

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

— Anonymous

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

— Eric Holder

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

— Madame de Stael

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

— David Cameron

“It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself”

— Dean Cavanagh

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

— Pat Robertson

“The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.”

— Walter Lord

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

— Theo Rossi

It's good to make history, because you can't take that from me.

— Tommy Pham

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.

— Aaron McGruder

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz