History Quotes · Page 208

I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.

— Brooks Koepka

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

— Christoph Waltz

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

I wish I could go back and take my name out of the history books so I would be a myth and…

— Anonymous

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

— Adam Pally

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

— Demetri Martin

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history…

— Robert Penn Warren

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…

— Alice Morse Earle

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part…

— Donald Bradman

We will write a new page of history, one that is positive for this country, so future generations can be proud.

— Jovenel Moise

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

— Rafael Palmeiro

“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so…

— Anonymous

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on…

— Charles Bolden

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in…

— Jeremy Corbyn

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could…

— Richard Hofstadter

There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings;…

— Charlie Chaplin

“Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that…

— John Howe

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a…

— Scott Spencer

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his…

— Richard M. Nixon

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

— Carrie Fisher

“Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.”

— Steven Pinker

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

— Jan Morris

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

— Eric Thomas

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

— Walter F. Mondale

There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

— Edgar Dale

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

— Anonymous

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

— Anonymous

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

— Chris Borland

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.

— Mario Kempes

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

— Leonard Cohen