History Quotes · Page 201

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

— Seamus Heaney

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

— Bill Watterson

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

— Arthur Koestler

I do not want to talk about the war, because I cannot change history.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin

— Washington Irving

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

— Harry J. Anslinger

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

— Virginia Woolf

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

— Anonymous

“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his…

— Randolph M. Nesse

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history,…

— Sara Sheridan

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week…

— Steven Spielberg

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but…

— Jodi Picoult

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class…

— Michel Aflaq

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing…

— Stanley A. Freed

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are…

— Dave Eggers

“(Dr. Swift, as bitter as ever, had observed that the history of the Stuarts in their northern lands had been that the…

— Joseph T Major

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the…

— Nikki Giovanni

It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the…

— Wayne Grudem

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…

— Herman Hesse

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than…

— Luther Standing Bear

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't…

— Tyler Perry

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

— Frank Gehry

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“It's easy t write a history. All the eyewitnesses are dead. - Ljupka Cvrtanova”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE”

— Gordon G. Chang

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The history of human achievement is, indeed,a record of what man can do by himself.

— Senoraroy

“The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.”

— Sambhav Ratnakar

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

— Paul Kagame

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

— Giles Deacon

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

— Marco Rubio

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”

— Robert Bonville

Yesterday was a history tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that's why we call it as present

— Samar Singh

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

— Etienne Gilson

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld