History Quotes · Page 132

“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.”

— Toba Beta

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

— P. W. Botha

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

— Sharon Kay Penman

I'm very private about my medical history, my medical issues.

— Nelly Korda

“[...] Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses.”

— Colleen Hoover

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

— Vladimir Putin

From the begining to the end know I'm into making history not into making friends.

— Drake

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— Thomas Paine

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic…

— Lionel Shriver

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

— Marcus Samuelsson

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God…

— Philip Schaff

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

— Terence McKenna

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put…

— Miles Teller

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des…

— Madame de Stael

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great…

— Steny Hoyer

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American…

— Ken Mehlman

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.…

— Aldis Hodge

“Our historical pursuits should seek meaning as well as understanding, wisdom as well as knowledge. They should center on two pivotal questions:…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that…

— Mona Sahlin

I think it's important to understand Shari'a to be rooted in history - what we know about the history and what we…

— Sadakat Kadri

I'd sold more records than any other person in history with one album, at that point, in '76. It became a very…

— Peter Frampton

“His expression was suddenly serious as the tip of his finger traced her lips. “I never understood why history is filled with…

— Elizabeth Elliott

German dominance in the EU is a fact of life. But for historical reasons, it would be the last country to be…

— Anthony Glees

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

— Woodrow Wilson

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

— Rue McClanahan

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

— George W. Bush

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

— Pope John Paul II

Harold Wilson is a significant and fascinating character in our history.

— Jason Watkins

Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.

— Michael Korda

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

— Aristotle

“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.”

— Martha Cooley

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

— John Eliot

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

— Anonymous

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

— Tenzin Palmo

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

— George Clooney

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

— Steven Biko

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

— Octavio Paz

Nobody needs to talk about the history of Manchester United because everybody knows it.

— Lothar Matthaus