History Quotes · Page 177

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

— Wes Nisker

Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.

— Norman Davies

You have to live with your lies. I don't. It's your story not mine. You know the truth and so do I.

— Anonymous

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

— Dolores Huerta

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

— Fred Saberhagen

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

— James L. Brooks

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

— Doc Rivers

“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent…

— Lee Vickers

Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force…

— Ralph Barton Perry

“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”

— Isabel Allende

American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.

— Heather Mac Donald

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of…

— Terry Eagleton

I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially…

— Oren Peli

When you continue to dwell on the past, there's no chance for a future. History repeats itself, thus, it's ok to LOOK…

— Anonymous

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

— Edward Gibbon

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first…

— Agnes Varda

My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and…

— Oliver Sacks

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and…

— Fernando Torres

“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree,…

— Terry Nardin

“Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish…

— Sara Gruen

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part…

— Ernst Haeckel

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our…

— Simon Schama

“The war. Here I was a virgin. Could you imagine getting your ass blown off for the sake of history before you…

— Charles Bukowski

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to respect Zidane, he's in the history of football.

— Casemiro

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

— Jean Jaures

The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

— Simon Bolivar

United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history.

— Oscar Munoz

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

— Aberjhani

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.”

— Ali Smith

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

— Philip Roth

My brother happens to be the greatest announcer in sports and entertainment history.

— Bruce Buffer

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

— Talib Kweli

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

— Gustav Stresemann

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

— Jeanine Pirro

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

— Friedrich Schiller

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion