History Quotes · Page 231

[Race relations in 2015 are] almost as bad as they have ever been in the history of the country.

— Donald Trump

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

— Phyllis McGinley

“I am not a professional historian: nobody is perfect.”

— Michel Foucault

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“I’d seen it before. It was history, repeating itself, over and over again.”

— Bella Forrest

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

— Winston Churchill

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

— Jacob Zuma

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

— Rosalynn Carter

Da past iz history, Da Future iz ah mystery, And ryte now iz ah gift, Datz why they kall it da present! ;)

— Tyler The Creator

“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped,…

— Judith Clancy

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

— Honore de Balzac

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me…

— Jarod Kintz

The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their…

— Neil Macdonald

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

— Virginia Woolf

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

— Eleanor Clift

I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it…

— Lynda Carter

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no…

— Robert Frost

Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign…

— Dominic Cummings

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it…

— Carl Sagan

If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I…

— Paul L. Maier

“We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed,…

— Charles Darwin

“One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answers. Sometimes…

— Lewis N. Roe

Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is…

— Aldo Leopold

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

— Henny Youngman

Pittsburgh is a historic program. Been known for a great defense.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

— David Miliband

“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”

— Andrew Smith

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

— Emmanuel Levinas

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

— Floyd Patterson

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

— Bill Vaughan

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

— Edward Said

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

— Allen Klein

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

— Hal Borland

LaLiga from Spain is crazy, man. It has a lot of history and a lot of soccer culture.

— Brandon Moreno

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history.

— Charlie Kirk

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

— Jack Gantos