History Quotes · Page 218

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

— Andrew Luck

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

— Gertrude Stein

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

— Chinua Achebe (Author

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

— John Exter

“The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”

— Erika Swyler

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

— Kobe Bryant

“we live so loudly that if our lives / become history it will be written in bold”

— Reese Lieberman

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

— Chalmers Johnson

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but…

— Ronald Reagan

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

— Jeanne Moreau

“A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a…

— Wendell Berry

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…

— Ernst Mayr

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most…

— Donna Tartt

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the…

— Carl Sagan

When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might…

— Ichiro Suzuki

Bob Mueller's entire history is as a tenacious prosecutor. And so he will follow the Russia investigation wherever it leads. But the…

— Garrett Graff

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land.…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“By the seventh year of the Bush-Cheney presidency, Bush had attached signing statements to about 150 bills enacted since he took office,…

— Charlie Savage

“When one considers American history as a whole, it is hard to think of any very long period in which it could…

— Richard Hofstadter

“250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many…

— Hussain Zaidi

The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a…

— Heather Cox Richardson

One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

— Libba Bray

We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it’s going

— Mzwakhe Mbuli

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

— Janet Flanner

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

— Jordan Peterson

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

— Andy Dunn

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

— Alexander Lebedev

“Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.”

— Randy Alcorn

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

— William Kristol

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

— Terry Bozzio

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

Alan Greenspan is the worst Chairman of the Fed in history.

— Steve Eisman

I find the macabre fascinating; it's all over history.

— John 5

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Sean Spicer gives press briefings like someone is going through his browser history while he watches.

— Hasan Minhaj