History Quotes · Page 112

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

— George Croly

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

— Steve Stern

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

— Anoushka Shankar

“Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.”

— John Brockman

I love to watch documentaries on The History Channel and TLC.

— Nina Tassler

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

— Paul Reiser

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

— Ludivine Sagnier

When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time -…

— Judge Curtis Bok

“We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but…

— Henri Cole

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation…

— Billy Graham

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful…

— Lisa Jewell

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the…

— Walter Benjamin

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of…

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Bill Clinton is just as gross as Donald Trump - so much so that the Clinton campaign can't really back Trump into…

— Shaun King

“The most terrible struggle in our recent history is being played out. It is not only a struggle for our land, it…

— Karel Capek

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their…

— Arundhati Roy

“And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to…

— J.R. Ward

“Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the…

— Leah Hager Cohen

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We…

— S.J. Watson

He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since…

— Philip Pullman

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And…

— Rudy Giuliani

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

— Robert Christgau

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

— Voltaire

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.

— Sergio Martinez

Every home is a history. A place where family live and grow together until finally being apart.

— Reny

I hope to make history at the club and become one of the great heroes of Manchester City.

— Robinho

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

— Henry David Thoreau

“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.”

— James S.A. Corey

If all of our future plans becomesuccessful, then the word death will become history.

— Mak_786

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

— Anonymous

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

— Hilary Mantel

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

— George Orwell

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

— Adam Curtis

“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.”

— Chuck Palahniuk