History Quotes · Page 197

I hope to make history at the club and become one of the great heroes of Manchester City.

— Robinho

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.

— Sergio Martinez

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

— Paul Reiser

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

— Robert Christgau

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

— Voltaire

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

— Anoushka Shankar

“Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.”

— John Brockman

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in…

— Steven Runciman

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

— William Loren Katz

“Who is this historian who can say that he's telling the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth. Nobody, because you're…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker…

— Anita Diament

“You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really…

— Lucien Febvre

Yesterday is a history, today is only ours, tomorrow still unknown and is full of uncertainty. Live now and use yesterday to…

— Anonymous

We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no…

— Robert Friedland

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel…

— Ben Jacobs

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them…

— Adam Hamilton

“You’ll have to excuse Kyle; he’s somewhat of a history geek and gets himself all excited. He talks without thinking sometimes,” Collin…

— Nicole Gulla

I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about…

— Cory Arcangel

“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of…

— Mike Jay

“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles…

— David Hume

“Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they have…

— Anonymous

I love to watch documentaries on The History Channel and TLC.

— Nina Tassler

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

— Steve Stern

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

— George Croly

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

— Mae West

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

— Carrie Brownstein

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

— Peter Gay

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

— Rick Ross

“This is an embarrassing hole. History is the most important of the literary subarts.”

— Brandon Sanderson

I want to make my mark in boxing history and to do this you have to fight the best.

— Dmitry Bivol

“Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.”

— Kevin Carson

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

— George Papandreou

“God was never created the economy. Men found it after banished from Eden.”

— Toba Beta

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

— Simone Weil