History Quotes · Page 15

History is written by the victors.

— Winston Churchill

Analysis kills spontaneity.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

— Dennis Farina

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

— James Toback

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.”

— John Owen Theobald

“am the part of your history..”

— sakhiabbas

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

“My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.”

— Zadie Smith

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

— Anatoli Boukreev

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

— Klemens von Metternich

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

— Kate Millett

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

“Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.”

— Lawrence Raab

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

— Cassandra Clare

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

— Margaret Mead

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny

— Thomas Jefferson

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

— Adolf Hitler

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than…

— Margaret Beckett

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our…

— Richard Harwood

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have…

— Narendra Modi

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize…

— Gangaji

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing…

— Cormac McCarthy

From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,…

— Hank Hanegraaff

“The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race,…

— Leonard J. Arrington

I used to live in an old historic shipyard town called Trenton, Michigan, and a month after I moved in, I started…

— Zak Bagans

“It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't,…

— José Saramago

“It has been often said that the winners write history. Cooperatives have been widespread and important in many periods of American history,…

— John Curl

History: A distillation of rumor.

— Thomas Carlyle

The camera is the eye of history.

— Mathew Brady

I did a history degree once.

— Joe Thomas

All my knowledge comes from research.

— Stan Sakai

I don't think you can erase history.

— Johnny Van Zant

I like the stories with the historical themes.

— Sarah Sutton

[History is] petrified imagination.

— Arthur Baer

“History in live performance.”

— Arundhati Roy