History Quotes · Page 230

“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”

— Jodi Picoult

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

— Jack Kent Cooke

“The War on Drugs will go down in history as the most racist crusade since slavery.”

— Thor Benson

“The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.”

— Mary Shelley

“History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”

— Suzy Kassem

“God has been using creative people throughout history to bring glory and honor to His name.”

— Women of Faith

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

— Shimon Attie

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble…

— Haruki Murakami

I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I…

— Billy Connolly

“[P]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep…

— Susan Griffin

I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and…

— Emma Watson

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last…

— Carl Sagan

“I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused…

— Johan Huizinga

I'm going to miss some of the boys on the Rockies... But coming to a team like St. Louis with great players…

— Nolan Arenado

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto?…

— Nicholas Shakespeare

“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’…

— E. Anne Mackay

“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the…

— Anonymous

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing…

— Noam Chomsky

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything?…

— Maya Angelou

“In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

— Priya Ardis

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

— G. M. Trevelyan

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

— Ludwig von Mises

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

— Delphine Arnault

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

— George Otis

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

— Rhiannon Giddens

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

— John Barth

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

— John Burroughs

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

— Ben Stiller

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

— W. Somerset Maugham

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

— Benjamin Netanyahu