History Quotes · Page 140

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

— Hillary Clinton

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

— Tacitus

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

— Robert Rauschenberg

In life you are the pencil that write's your own history...¥

— Luz E Lopez

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

— A. N. Wilson

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

— Italo Calvino

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

— Leon Redbone

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

— John Darnielle

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

— Daniel Morgan

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a…

— Gordon Smith

“Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat.…

— Natalie Wright

Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.

— Kim Campbell

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

— Maurice Hinchey

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear…

— Noah Baumbach

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one,…

— Erik Larson

“Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood…

— Chris Kelly

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the…

— Jonathan Alter

“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . .…

— Kiera Cass

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else,…

— Haruki Murakami

I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in…

— Jesmyn Ward

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to…

— Kirk Cameron

“...neither fate, nor history, nor the anger of the State, nor the glory or infamy of battle has any power to affect…

— Vasily Grossman

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The…

— Robert Penn Warren

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

— Theodor Mommsen

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

— Bill Wyman

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

— Aldous Huxley

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

— A. L. Rowse

Normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

— Joan Rivers

“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”

— Alan Bennett

“One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.”

— Diane van der Westhuizen

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

— Clive Cussler

Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.

— Margaret Morse Nice

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

— Matthew Perry

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

— Winston Churchill

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.”

— Philippa Gregory

The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.

— James Packer