History Quotes · Page 152

I wish I could go back and take my name out of the history books so I would be a myth and…

— Anonymous

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

— Christoph Waltz

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.

— Brooks Koepka

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

— Fred Willard

“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

— Lee Clow

“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not…

— Salman Rushdie

“I’m convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!”17”

— Bob Ward

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb…

— Angela Davis

I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance…

— Ben Feldman

“What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated. How can it not be, with our history?”

— Rachel Caine

I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to…

— Will Hobbs

This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and…

— Ahmad Sa'adat

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and…

— Rhonda Byrne

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt…

— Max Gladstone

“You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat up—in so many interesting ways—from a bear attack.…

— Kendare Blake

When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,…

— Huston Smith

“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery,…

— Kate Atkinson

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

— Anonymous

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

— Anonymous

There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

— Edgar Dale

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

— Walter F. Mondale

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

— Eric Thomas

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

— Jan Morris

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

“Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.”

— Steven Pinker

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

— Carrie Fisher

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We already have our history with Joanna in Muay Thai and we can start our history in MMA.

— Valentina Shevchenko

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

— Will Rogers

“This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.”

— Charles Nicholl