History Quotes · Page 179

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

— Louis Oosthuizen

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.

— Alexander Dreymon

“There's no sweeter taste in the entire history of the world than your skin on fire. For me.”

— Rebecca Zanetti

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

— Ernest Thompson Seton

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

— Conner Eldridge

Its not about the ones who tell the stories its about those who pass them on.

— Karen Loomis

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

— Edward Snowden

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but…

— C. S. Lewis

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.…

— Christopher Paolini

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must…

— Chinua Achebe

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.

— Justin Gatlin

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them…

— Eva Mendes

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month…

— Phoebe Robinson

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the…

— Carter Lindberg

“torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to…

— Charles Dickens

I think it's one of our strengths that we can put on blinders when it comes to our history and just focus…

— Russell Mael

“At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you…

— C.A.A. Savastano

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate…

— Mitch Landrieu

“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged,…

— Christopher Fowler

I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important... no, I didn't either: I didn't think…

— Frank Buckles

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made…

— Mario Cuomo

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

— Gerard Houllier

“Memory is the most potent truth. Show me history untouched by memories and you show me lies.”

— Carlos Eire

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

— Rivka Galchen

Yesterday is history,Tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift, That is why we call it *The Present*.

— Daniyal Butt

“From the Battle of Clontarf to Stalingrad: history brought to life”

— Anonymous

“Leave it to Kate to give me a history lesson immediately after returning from the brink of death.”

— Michelle Madow

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

— Joe Biden

“The 101st has no history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny.”

— Maj. Gen William C. Lee

In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.

— Piyush Goyal

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

— Elvis Costello

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

— Doug Liman

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

“Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create History ..”

— Hitler

“History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.”

— Jeannette Walls

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of…

— Paul Horgan

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

— Carol Moseley Braun