History Quotes · Page 137

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

— J. R. Ackerley

“There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.”

— Habeeb Akande

Those moment that u remember on your mind it's your history of your journey

— Ritu

“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.”

— Martin Herman

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

— Natalya Neidhart

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

— Murray Walker

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

— George Orwell

“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.”

— Timothy Snyder

“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Martha Washington was terrified of battlefields, yet she spent fully half of the American Revolution with her husband George, a courageous act…

— Steven L. Harrison

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

— Harold Evans

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different…

— Errol Morris

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of…

— Matt Mullenweg

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to…

— Edward Gibbon

“History is like a story with great characters, fantastic storylines, and wonderful settings. ~ Chip Lagerbom, 2011”

— Dave Webb

True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years…

— Patricia Heaton

Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay…

— M. King Hubbert

“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization…

— George Orwell

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape…

— Madeleine Albright

I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think…

— John Shelby Spong

“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in…

— Harold G. Moore

“A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: "It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred…

— Cyril Connolly

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and…

— Paul Wilson

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

— Camilo Jose Cela

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

— Steve Kornacki

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

— Emilie Autumn

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

— Edmund Beecher Wilson

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

— H. W. Brands

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

— Claudia Rankine

Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.

— Michael Keaton

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.”

— Frank Beddor

“It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum.”

— Douglas Wilson

“by Nikil Saval in “Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.”

— Anonymous

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”

— Tim Grove

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

— Aleister Crowley

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

— Colin Jost

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

— Rodney Dangerfield