History Quotes · Page 116

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

— David P. Thelen

“History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.”

— Tod Wodicka

Not to make waves, not to leave behind any history, but just to grow old and die, is a sad way to…

— Senora Roy

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

— Anonymous

“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.”

— Sarah Manguso

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

— Gore Vidal

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Pittsburgh is a historic program. Been known for a great defense.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of…

— Kevin Costner

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

— Anonymous

I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding…

— Tamzin Outhwaite

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy…

— Deb Caletti

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility…

— Anonymous

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the…

— Anne Sexton

To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did…

— Reid Scott

Solar power - the costs have dramatically fallen, far faster than anyone has speculated. It's probably one of the greatest steps forward…

— Ed Davey

“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the…

— Victoria Finlay

“I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in…

— Isaac Marion

Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President…

— Stephen Ambrose

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed…

— Thomas Pynchon

Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a…

— Lewis Mumford

“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war…

— George Packer

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build…

— Kim Gordon

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

— Henny Youngman

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

— Rosalynn Carter

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

— Jacob Zuma

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

— Winston Churchill

“I’d seen it before. It was history, repeating itself, over and over again.”

— Bella Forrest

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

— Floyd Patterson

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

— Emmanuel Levinas

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”

— Andrew Smith

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

— David Miliband

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

— Hal Borland

LaLiga from Spain is crazy, man. It has a lot of history and a lot of soccer culture.

— Brandon Moreno

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

— Allen Klein

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

— Edward Said

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

— Bill Vaughan