History Quotes · Page 77

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

— Katherine Dunn

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

— Vivian Gornick

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

— Max Brooks

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

— A. J. P. Taylor

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

— Donald Kagan

Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.

— Brian Quinn

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian

“Happy people don't make history. Happy people make children, then die.”

— Neil Hilborn

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

— Madison Cawthorn

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace…

— Edna Buchanan

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

— Jules Michelet

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant…

— Julie Foudy

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back…

— Dan Brown

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

— Sasheer Zamata

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz

“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished…

— Albert Camus

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new…

— James Baldwin

I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods,"…

— Dave Barry

Chinese Communist Party leaders are students of history, and they recognize America's arsenal of democracy all but ensured America's triumph in the…

— Michael Waltz

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…

— T. S. Eliot

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…

— Michel Foucault

“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of…

— Leon Trotsky

“Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they…

— Anne Rice

If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept her alive -…

— Patty Jenkins

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

History just continues to repeat itself over and over again.

— Mike Faist

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.

— Jerry Van Dyke

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

Never place your happiness in someone else's hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness

— Anonymous

New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.

— Toyah Willcox

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

— George W. Norris

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

— Gavin Extence

“If the words, But you’re a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.”

— Laken Cane

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

— Mike Tyson

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

— F. Sionil Jose

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

— Carol Tavris

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

— Lindsey Buckingham

“We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.”

— J.K. Rowling