History Quotes · Page 216

Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there.

— Gonzalo Higuain

“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.”

— David Mitchell

They say leave the past behind. So why are we studying social studies or history.

— Anonymous

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

— Steve Inskeep

“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.”

— Orrin Woodward

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

— Brent Scowcroft

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

— Gloria Feldt

It's always the good guys who win in war, or it will remain so in the history.

— Melchor Lim

“People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.”

— Michael Pryor

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

— George Santayana

I think Shohei Ohtani is worth $500 million. He's a phenomenon never seen before in the MLB history. He can do it all.

— Manny Ramirez

“Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba (London: Pluto Press, 2010).”

— Noam Chomsky

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and…

— Tim Blake Nelson

Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands…

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.”

— Carol Strickland

“Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of…

— Rana Dasgupta

Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his…

— Edward Gibbon

“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected…

— Karl Marx

The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a…

— Carl Honore

“The moment of decapitation is for Marin, as it had been for Caillois, a moment of 'singular metamorphosis ... when the Gorgon's…

— David A. Leeming

I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any…

— Jacques Torres

In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I…

— Max Muller

Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we…

— Edward Said

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

— Amilcar Cabral

“Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.”

— Tony Perrottet

Instead of a priority, you made me an option. So now you're history, lost and forgotten.

— Anonymous

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

— John Maynard Keynes

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

— David Dixon

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

— John Carter Cash

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

— Jose Maria Aznar

“Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.”

— David Boorstin

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

— Simon Schama

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

— Joe Murray

Of course I want to be compared to one of the greatest shortstops in the history of the game.

— Carlos Correa