History Quotes · Page 607

“Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by…

— Mike Jay

There's a rich history at Westboro of parodying pop culture. The thing about pop culture is that it gives us a shared…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this…

— Marcus Miller

“Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to…

— Bill Bryson

“Dr. Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., a former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt has described the contents of…

— John Price

Brandon McCaw says when the Athenians and the Spartans found themselves as war witgh one another in 431 B.C.E., both sides believed…

— Brandon McCaw

“I know what I'm asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one…

— James Baldwin

Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast.…

— Karl Popper

“I don't want to lose you over tedious genealogy and history that must be very dim to you. This is a story…

— Peter Behrens

If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf,…

— Asif Ali Zardari

Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration,…

— Kool A.D

It's a big opportunity to be the first American player in the history of Juventus. Having the opportunity to wear this shirt,…

— Weston McKennie

Jewish Americans have a long and proud history in Georgia and in the United States. Their story is inherently American - it…

— Lucy McBath

I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It…

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

“Bread plays favorites. From the earliest times, it acts as a social marker, sifting the poor from the wealthy, the cereal from…

— Christa Parrish

I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the…

— Hillary Clinton

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect…

— Amanda Foreman

Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change…

— Gabriel Batistuta

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact,…

— George Coyne

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…

— Ian Kershaw

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear…

— Walt Whitman

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a…

— Gough Whitlam

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the…

— Rick Perlstein

“Despite Gentile’s disagreement with Marx about historical inevitability, he has at this point clearly broken with modern conservatism and classical liberalism and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century.…

— Catherine Martin

“Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all…

— Rosalind Miles

“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as…

— Betty Friedan

“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up…

— Caitlin Doughty

“there’s no damsel with a tragic history in there? With a name like the Three Craftsmen, they each should build something awesome…

— Kevin Hearne

“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever,…

— Charles C. Mann

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as…

— Anonymous

“Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown…

— Kimberly Cutter

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for…

— Audra McDonald

Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even…

— Robert Plant

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet,…

— Alan Palomo

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that…

— George Orwell

“It was scary. More than Sara could possibly know. More than anybody ought to know, or ever would. History wasn't for the…

— James Patterson

In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always…

— Wilhelm Reich

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she…

— Bettany Hughes