History Quotes · Page 153

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

— Vera Rubin

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

— William Irwin Thompson

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

— Ariel Pink

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

— Leonard Cohen

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.

— Mario Kempes

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

— Chris Borland

“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a…

— J.C. Penny

“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.”

— Martha M Moravec

I like to do some research and learn about the destination before I travel there. I read up on its history, culture…

— Diana Penty

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

— H. G. Wells

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

— Joseph de Maistre

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who…

— Thomas Carlyle

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

— Susan Jacoby

At times of economic upheaval and with pressures on livelihoods, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful. In the…

— Wes Streeting

“The crying out to God in lament over a broken history is often set aside in favor of a triumphalistic narrative. We…

— Soong-Chan Rah

“Al-Quran dalam pendapatnya mempunyai sifat supernatural. Kemukjizatannya terletak bukan hanya pada isi dan kebenaran psikologis dan mistisnya, tetapi juga pada cepatnya Islam…

— Gustave E. Von Grunebaum

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the…

— Naomie Harris

It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley…

— Ronald Reagan

“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon…

— John Niven

“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been…

— Kenneth Clark

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

— Thomas Jefferson

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

Happy Black History Month! Despite setbacks and stereotypes, I'm proud of my roots and history.

— Anonymous

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

— Robert Tew

I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it.

— Bettany Hughes

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

— Pablo Picasso

As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.

— David Olusoga

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

— Steven Levy

Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.

— Todd Young

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

— Kevin Bacon

There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.

— Kerry James Marshall

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I have always felt like I want to change the course of history.

— Opal Tometi

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

— Madame de Stael

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

— Norman O. Brown