History Quotes · Page 185

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

— Anonymous

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

— Harry Crocker

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

— Norman Mailer

“I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.”

— Winston Churchill

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

— Susannah Cahalan

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

— Edward Said

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

— James Ellroy

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

— Tom G. Palmer

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the…

— Prodigy

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.”

— Anonymous

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

— John Henrik Clarke

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

— Therese Fowler

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas…

— Richard M. Nixon

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of…

— Edmund Burke

Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the…

— Simon Heffer

I used to say I didn't regret dropping out of school because it's what I had to do. But I do feel…

— Neve Campbell

We had a 'Project Joey' scheme worked out in which I would take correspondence courses while acting in Hollywood. Then when I…

— Joey Heatherton

A white nationalist would claim that flying the confederate flag on a state building is an expression of cultural history, rather than…

— Neil Macdonald

“They’d never precisely been friends, but they’d managed to stop the human race from being wiped out by a corporation’s self-induced sociopathy…

— James S.A. Corey

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for…

— Bryan Stevenson

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end…

— Nicholas Meyer

Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American…

— Steve Inskeep

“History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?”

— Gordon G. Chang

“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”

— Jessie Burton

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.”

— Timothy Snyder

I always wanted to write a page of history with PSG.

— Angel Di Maria

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

I like to be the winner; I like to change. I like to make history.

— Samir Nasri

I'm the best goal-scorer in the history of the African Cup.

— Samuel Eto'o

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

— Peter Zumthor

If you look at the history of wrestling, what makes heels great is their ridiculous statements.

— Tyrus

If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.

— Clemantine Wamariya

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

— Fidel Castro

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

— John Hope Franklin

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

— Nouriel Roubini