History Quotes · Page 232

I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.

— Michael McKean

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

— Steve Rushin

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

— H. L. Mencken

“History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.”

— Tod Wodicka

The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.

— Ilkin Santak

“Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

— David P. Thelen

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

— Douglas Wilder

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal…

— Toni Morrison

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions…

— Dorothy Parker

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because…

— Jennifer Lopez

“All truths are easy to understand once they have been revealed. What is difficult is to discover them.”

— Galileo Galilei

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

— Jonathan Kozol

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

— Andre Malraux

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships…

— Daniel Carter Beard

I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking…

— Sarnath Banerjee

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir…

— Edward Kennedy

“The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it. Imagine you’re the first human in history…

— Anonymous

If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -…

— Steve Green

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever:…

— Adrienne Rich

“Look son, the Human Pig. (shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman! (deadpan)Another animal could do this?”

— Larry Gonick

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”

— Sarah Manguso

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

— Gore Vidal

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

— Anonymous

Not to make waves, not to leave behind any history, but just to grow old and die, is a sad way to…

— Senora Roy

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

I've made history, I've just beaten one man, who's to say I can't beat more?

— Fallon Sherrock

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

— Jefferson Davis

“Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.”

— Djuna Barnes

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

— Tony Blair

“Your impact in life is a memory that lives forever thus be creative in positivity.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

— Charles Angoff

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich