History Quotes · Page 70

I got a history a history I wont tell.

— Unkown

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

— Arthur Miller

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

— Eli Whitney

Everybody makes money; not everybody makes history.

— Jordan Burroughs

“I am merely a historian for fictional characters.”

— Ceara Comeau

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

— Claude Lanzmann

I love the experience and history that comes with selecting and enjoying a great bottle of wine.

— Cynthia Bailey

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

— Thomas Jefferson

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

— David Douglass

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

— Richard Ebeling

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

— R. C. Sproul

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage…

— David Bowie

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have…

— Jacques Rivette

“I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if…

— Maurice Minnifield

Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there…

— Harry A. Blackmun

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

— Angela Davis

“To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one…

— Alain de Botton

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed…

— Edward Gibbon

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls…

— Alison Moyet

“And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction…

— Walidah Imarisha

What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement…

— Christopher Dawson

“We need not deplore the renunciation of historical truth when we put forward rational grounds for the precepts of civilization. The truths…

— Sigmund Freud

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second…

— Christian Lacroix

Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If…

— Ursula Goodenough

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

— James W. Loewen

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

— Juvenal

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

— Mort Walker

I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather.

— Sky Blu

My Jet Setters with me, My fans are the most loyal ever in history

— Diggy Simmons

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

— Harry S Truman

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

— Melissa Leong

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.”

— Frank Beddor

Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.

— Michael Keaton

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

— H. W. Brands