History Quotes · Page 190

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

— Alvin Boyd Kuhn

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

— Kurt Busiek

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

— Gene Tierney

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

— Kevin Kelly

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Just knowing the history of WWE, I know there haven't been a lot of African Americans that have come through and been…

— Naomi

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more…

— Sidney Blumenthal

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with…

— John Adams

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the…

— Donte Stallworth

It's unbelievable what I discovered within Hackney. Just meeting my old mates, but also meeting historians that knew everything about it.

— Jay Blades

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other…

— Jerry Yang

“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no…

— Claire North

“Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for…

— Chelsea Fagan

“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that…

— Neal Stephenson

“All across Italy, as Parasecoli tells me, food is used to identify who is Italian and who is not. But dig a…

— Mark Bittman

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll…

— Frederick Wiseman

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to…

— Gaddafi

Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people…

— Thomas Sadoski

“If you’re looking for an historical adventure soaked in blood… Quest for the Holy Lance delivers…. Latham shows a welcome attention to…

— Jack Hight

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

— Henry Adams

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

— Anonymous

“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.”

— Orson Scott Card

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

— Tia Carrere

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

— Mike Colter

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

— John McCain

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

— Raymond Chandler

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

History tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing.

— Barack Obama

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

— James Lovelock

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Singing and dancing is the greatest diet in the history of the planet.

— Hugh Jackman

“The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.”

— Walter A. McDougall