History Quotes · Page 115

Our children and grandchildren should be taught an accurate history, even if it is a painful one.

— Michelle Steel

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

— Charles Angoff

“Your impact in life is a memory that lives forever thus be creative in positivity.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Excusing or downplaying British racism with comparisons to the US is a bad habit with a long history.

— David Olusoga

“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.”

— Josephine Humphreys

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

— Salman Rushdie

Most of the version of Tudor history we know is through the eyes of Henry VIII.

— Charlotte Hope

As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge…

— Joan Nestle

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's…

— Johnny Vegas

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct…

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

— Virginia Henley

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over…

— Anonymous

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

— Jenni Olson

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

— Joe Torre

There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history,…

— Tony Benn

“Specifying our investment decision-making criteria in algorithms and running historical data through them, or specifying our work principles in algorithms and using…

— Ray Dalio

“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's…

— Nic Fields

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -…

— Vine Deloria Jr

The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his…

— William James

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to…

— Gore Vidal

I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people…

— Steve Wilkos

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

— Philibert Orry

Khabib Nurmagomedov is the most dominant fighter in the history of MMA.

— Ariel Helwani

“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )”

— Sting

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

— Buchi Emecheta

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

— Aldous Huxley

“The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind.”

— kambiz mostofizadeh

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.

— Michael McKean

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

— Jack Gantos

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

— H. L. Mencken

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

— Steve Rushin

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Look son, the Human Pig. (shocked)Mother, y-you're inhuman! (deadpan)Another animal could do this?”

— Larry Gonick

The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.

— Ilkin Santak

“Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.”

— Melissa de la Cruz