History Quotes · Page 143

When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

— George Wald

There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.

— Joy Reid

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

— Terry Pratchett

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

— Lewis Thomas

The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

— Erich Honecker

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

— Bernard DeVoto

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth,…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge…

— Robert D. Kaplan

I revere the history of my party, most particularly the value it has always placed on the worth and dignity of the…

— Susan Collins

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

— Mike Jackson

This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on…

— Leonardo Bonucci

The evolution of exploitation. From imperialism, colonization to globalization different terminologies same procedure.

— Fabian Abeku Spada Amoo

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides,…

— Warren Mundine

There are several rivalries in MMA and vale tudo history, like jiu-jitsu vs. luta livre and Chute Boxe vs. Brazilian Top Team.…

— Patricio Freire

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a…

— Elliott Abrams

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way.…

— Damon Dash

“Evil? What is that? ...You said you were death itself. Are you evil, then, or are you simply stronger and more awake…

— James Luceno

“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing…

— Tim Kreider

“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other…

— Julie P. Gentile

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;…

— Aldous Huxley

“If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of…

— John Gray

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should…

— Bob Costas

“Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.”

— Cynthia Hand

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.”

— R.A. McCandless

(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.”

— Philippe de Montebello

I hope that as Alabama continues to make progress, we remember the lessons of history.

— Kay Ivey

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

— Ray Dalio

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

— Ruben Hinojosa

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

— Jane Ridley

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

— Wilfrid Laurier

“Oh, come on. You eye-hump him all through British History.”

— Cynthia Hand

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

— R. H. Tawney

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

— Gauri Khan

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson