History Quotes · Page 669

We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in…

— Barack Obama

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place…

— David Ehrenfeld

I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of…

— Simon Helberg

“associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and…

— Anonymous

“History is always the interpretation of the present”

— Anonymous

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse…

— Steve Schmidt

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of…

— Karl Popper

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

— George W. Bush

The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low…

— Sean M. Carroll

“The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new…

— Ruth Behar

“Dear Lord I am tired of forgiving people that offended me. Is there anyway you can fix this people's mind to do…

— Patience Johnson

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

— Robert Paul Weston

“No segment of White Christian America has been more complicit in the nation’s fraught racial history than white evangelical Protestants.”

— Robert P. Jones

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the…

— Howard Zinn

“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck…

— Ian McEwan

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

— G. Gordon Liddy

“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots…

— Alexandre Dumas

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

— Jennifer Egan

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break…

— N. T. Wright

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will…

— Dean Koontz

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the…

— Steven Spielberg

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little…

— Justin Winsor

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which…

— Katha Pollitt

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without…

— Jon Meacham

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that…

— Louis Sullivan

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that…

— Edward Zwick

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for…

— Richard Grasso

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we…

— Leonard Richardson

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

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us…

— Edmund Husserl

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

— Barbara Boxer

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

— Rutger Bregman

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the…

— Wyndham Lewis

“DNA has memory!”

— Isaiah Washington

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from…

— Stewart Brand

For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the…

— Leon Trotsky