History Quotes · Page 124

The South is the region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver

It's an honor to play on the same team as some of the best players in the history of the game.

— Frances Tiafoe

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

— James W. Loewen

“History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?”

— Jeanne M. Dams

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.

— Germaine De Stael

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

— Alison Weir

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

— David Ignatius

“Recent history takes a while to set. People really don’t know what just happened. They only figure it out later.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my…

— Xavier Samuel

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the…

— Walter Benjamin

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but…

— Elizabeth Janeway

It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history,…

— Natalie Maines

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

— Anonymous

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my…

— Brian Acton

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the…

— Nina Turner

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…

— Eric Kandel

I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for…

— Nick D'Aloisio

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any…

— Erik Pevernagie

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have…

— Toni Morrison

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

— Philipp Lahm

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

— Ken Burns

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

— Hermann Goring

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

— Vartan Gregorian

“I want us to have history, something longer than the small window of time we're actually sharing...”

— Adam Silvera

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

— Terry Pratchett

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

— Eduardo Galeano

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

— Wes Nisker

Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.

— Norman Davies

You have to live with your lies. I don't. It's your story not mine. You know the truth and so do I.

— Anonymous

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

— Dolores Huerta

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

— James L. Brooks

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

— Fred Saberhagen

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

— John Ruskin

I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.

— Omar Torrijos Herrera