History Quotes · Page 212

We know Manchester United's history and the fact the club is known for winning trophies.

— Jesse Lingard

“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”

— Amir Alexander

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Access to accurate information means very little in the face of strong convictions...

— John Michael Greer

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

— Roger Ver

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

— Edward Hirsch

Happy Black History Month everyone. I challenge you blacks to change how other races view us.

— Anonymous

“But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.”

— Anonymous

I try to make my kids happy, so when they grow up they can look back and see a father who did…

— Keylor Navas

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

— Ibrahim Babangida

“The story of a briefly abundant hairless primate originating in Africa is but a footnote in the history of life, but in…

— Matt Ridley (Author

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

— Ricky Williams

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A…

— James M. Kouzes

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous…

— Edmund Burke

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

— Sheryl Sandberg

“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good…

— Mark Twain

“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming…

— Claudio Magris

“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on…

— Edmund Wilson

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay…

— Susan Brigden

Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we…

— Raymond S. Moore

“Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?" Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit…

— after battle of Manzikert Alp Arslan

“No, the Bible stands all alone, by itself, and there is not one other book which could share its glory. It is…

— Patrick Davis

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that…

— Hassan Nasrallah

I guess its better then a suicide note? Once my father was joking and laughing about people who killed their selves. Dad…

— Jade

“It is God’s decree which by itself completely determines the course of history;”

— Anonymous

Historys shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is hell.

— Japanese Manga

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

— Karl Marx

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

— Benjamin Butler

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

— Harry Browne

Gun violence should have no home in the richest country in the history of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

— Philip Roth

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

— Ernest Renan

“You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?”

— Tamora Pierce

“It is the violent act that makes history and changes everything that came before.”

— Don DeLillo

“Save ur chat history. When u miss someone. Just open it. Read it again long conv you've ever had.”

— mettamini

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

— Dan Quayle

History is about great forces, yes, but also about contingency.

— Margaret MacMillan

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

— Joseph Conrad

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

— Howard Zinn