History Quotes · Page 71

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

— Claudia Rankine

“by Nikil Saval in “Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.”

— Anonymous

“It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum.”

— Douglas Wilson

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

— Colin Jost

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”

— Tim Grove

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

— Aleister Crowley

Those moment that u remember on your mind it's your history of your journey

— Ritu

“The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.”

— Michael Dwinnell

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot…

— Donald Kagan

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of…

— Donald Trump

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to…

— George W. Bush

“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past…

— Rutger Bregman

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay…

— Paula McLain

“There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in…

— M.F. Moonzajer

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back…

— D. James Kennedy

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness…

— Miranda Wilcox

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a…

— Bill Vaughan

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able…

— Terry Pratchett

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old…

— Noam Chomsky

“Origins and History of Consciousness III. It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger, dress, go out, drink coffee, enter a…

— Adrienne Rich

“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're…

— Stephen King

“Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that…

— Eric Metaxas

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as…

— Ron Suskind

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

— J. R. Ackerley

“There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.”

— Habeeb Akande

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

— Natalya Neidhart

“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.”

— Martin Herman

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

— Camilo Jose Cela

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

— Steve Kornacki

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

— George Orwell

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

— Murray Walker

“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.”

— Timothy Snyder

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

— Edmund Beecher Wilson

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

— Emilie Autumn

“This is the best day of my life…I will go down in history as the greatest German ever.”

— Volker Ullrich

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

— Stephen Hawking

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

— Reinhold Niebuhr