History Quotes · Page 1,051

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out…

— Lady Gaga

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

— Natalie Maines

“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the…

— Isaiah Berlin

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

— Richard Dawkins

'Hamilton' is a story about America, and the most beautiful thing about it is... it's told by such a diverse cast with…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the…

— Henry Adams

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable…

— Jared Diamond

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and…

— Bettany Hughes

“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,…

— Inga Muscio

[The] curious phenomenon which has intrigued the entire world: The Cuban Revolution.

— Ernesto

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great…

— Mathew Brady

I'm interested in history.

— Jiang Wen

“He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans…

— Jarod Kintz

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better…

— Demetri Martin

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

— Lindsay Davenport

Let the Wall Street wolves and their prostitute press howl, the people will sustain you and history will vindicate you.

— Robert La Folette

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

— Dalton McGuinty

“Singers say ‘tradition’ when they don’t want to explain.” “It’s more than that.” Wik shook his head, struggling for patience. “It’s about…

— Fran Wilde

Im sick of making bloody history.

— Patrick Rafter

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

— Billy Graham

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

— Woodrow Wilson

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to…

— William Struse

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

— Ed Koch

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and…

— Ian Mortimer