History books Quotes

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

— Thomas Carlyle

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

— Anatole France

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!

— Thomas Carlyle

“The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious”

— Anatole France

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

— Lando Norris

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

— David Strathairn

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

— Christine Keeler

Sir Alex Ferguson already has his place in the history books; he is definitely one of the best coaches ever.

— Massimiliano Allegri

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

— Spencer Wells

“The most important events in every age never reach the history books.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

— Judy LaMarsh

At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in…

— Adrien Broner

“You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Imagine if people knew that this legendary brotherhood who, according to the history books, ceased to exist in the Middle Ages was…

— John Paul Davis

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes…

— Amitava Kumar

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also…

— Virginia Henley

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point…

— Vijay Prashad

“i didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.…

— Aldis Hodge

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books…

— Dan Brown

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that…

— Dick Gregory

“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history…

— Ronald Geigle

What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A…

— Suzy Kassem

Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage.…

— Jack Conte

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from…

— Karen White

“Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can…

— Thomas Ligotti

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Man’s first encounter with sentient alien life was…

— Christina Engela

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the…

— Steven Pinker

“That’s what the history books say . . . but history books are written by the victors. The official history of emotion research, from…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“You're mine now, Harry thought at the walls of Diagon Alley, and all the shops and items, and all the shopkeepers and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Until I was ten, I had a very clear image of God; ravaged with age and draped in white scarves, God had…

— Orhan Pamuk

“A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by…

— Paul Le Blanc

“I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the…

— Diana Peterfreund

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news…

— Tom Morello