History Quotes · Page 212

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I feel like I have a legacy that I've built. I feel like I've made my little notch in history.

— Violet Chachki

“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.”

— Mark Lawrence

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

— E. P. Thompson

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

— Washington Irving

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

— Eugene Manlove Rhodes

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

Anti-racism teachings and world history must coexist and complement each other.

— Jessica Tarlov

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He…

— Otto von Bismarck

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

— Kim Gordon

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the…

— Tariq Ramadan

“if you really want to live, it’s imperative that you go back down the path and claim it. You’ve got to be…

— Jeff Brown

“The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history…

— Tony Dovale

“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he…

— Robert Reid

In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse -…

— Kenneth Fisher

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

— Ludwig von Mises

The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to…

— Noam Chomsky

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political…

— Andrew Jackson

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came…

— John Edgar Wideman

“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about…

— Reza Aslan

“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Whatever else it may be, the Qur’an is no work of history. Startlingly, were it not for all the commentaries elucidating its…

— Tom Holland

“World praises the amalgamation of unconscious & conscious, History is the testament.”

— Shreyansh Jaiswal

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

— Jennifer Egan

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is

— Reggie Jackson

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

— Salman Rushdie

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

— Henry Adams

My family has a history with Ohio State. My mom, my uncle, and my brother Joey: all Buckeyes.

— Nick Bosa

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.”

— Jessie Burton

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

— John Barth

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Common and I have a long history of making great music together.

— No I.D

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

— Ulysses S. Grant

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

— Duke of Wellington