History Quotes · Page 184

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

— Karl Barth

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

— Ayn Rand

I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.

— Rza

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

— John McCain

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

— Erik Larson

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not…

— Barbara Tuchman

The fact that a wrestling program called 'Raw' could be the longest running television show in the history of television, bar nobody…

— Roddy Piper

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo…

— Novak Djokovic

A thousand years of uninterrupted British sovereignty has taught us one thing. If change isn't allowed to be a process, it becomes…

— Penny Mordaunt

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

— Bill Walton

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

— Rip Torn

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of…

— Karl Rove

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you…

— Anonymous

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process…

— Ken Calvert

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find…

— Thomas Carlyle

If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be…

— Rick Bright

“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things…

— Haruki Murakami

Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things…

— Elaine Pagels

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both…

— Michel Foucault

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps…

— Rand Paul

I'm in this sport to be the champion. I want to be a great champion and go down in history for it.

— Darren Till

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

— Anthony Horowitz

“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.”

— Victor Hugo

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

— Allan Nevins

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

— Jimmy Pardo

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

— Jesse Andrews

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

— Dick Cavett

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

— Simone Weil

“Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History. -John McCain”

— John McCain

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

— Tom Peters

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

In 100 years, when you open the MMA history book, my name is the one that will be there.

— Patricio Freire

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

— Bettany Hughes

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

— Joanne Nova

“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!”

— Anonymous