History Quotes · Page 126

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

— Bob Stinson

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

— David Herbert Donald

You lucky its black history month or it would've been a lot worse. -Ronnie

— The Players Club

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

— David Blaine

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -Albert Einstein”

— Barbara Post-Askin

“History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.”

— Jay Asher

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

— Gary North

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

— Steven Moffat

“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how…

— Christina Baker Kline

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was…

— Ian Frazier

I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but…

— Jamie Chung

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise…

— Philip Appleman

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has…

— Hannah Arendt

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state…

— Fareed Zakaria

I feel like in my field, like in fitness, or in health, you kind of need to read journal articles, like health…

— Chloe Ting

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is…

— David Crystal

“Zach's eyelids flutter and droop, his mind a pleasant jumble—things said tonight, last year, last month, things said in dreams. He sees…

— Emma Richler

“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to…

— Claudia Clark

Every American from Orlando to Los Angeles should have an understanding of our country's history. We should know how our government works…

— Michael Waltz

“Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits)…

— John Garth

“The pro-life cause originated at a far earlier date than historians have previously thought, and its origins were not tied to a…

— Daniel K. Williams

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this…

— Olive Schreiner

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that…

— C.S. Lewis

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history,…

— Pope Francis

“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone is standing around reloading”

— Thomas Jefferson

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

— Anonymous

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

— Umberto Eco

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

— Samuel Pisar

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

— Condoleezza Rice

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

— David Salle

People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.

— Alexander Dreymon

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

— Louis Oosthuizen

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.”

— Julian B. Barbour

Obama has been successfully dividing Americans like no other president in history.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

— Conner Eldridge

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

— Ernest Thompson Seton

“There's no sweeter taste in the entire history of the world than your skin on fire. For me.”

— Rebecca Zanetti

Its not about the ones who tell the stories its about those who pass them on.

— Karen Loomis

“God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.”

— Iris Murdoch