History Quotes · Page 219

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

— Jean Bodin

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

— Paulo Coelho

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

— Michael Phelps

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

— Marcel Proust

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to…

— David Weinberger

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years,…

— Candice Millard

Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.

— Julius Randle

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese…

— Tom Robbins

Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.

— Mark Waid

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that…

— Leigh Bardugo

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to…

— Chaka Khan

This is a club with a very big history, and the fans are a big part of that. There will be pressure…

— Aleksandar Mitrovic

[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone…

— Yann Martel

“When I look back at my sexual history - those singular still shots and picture postcards - so little of it involves…

— Megan Stielstra

What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations,…

— Adolf Bastian

Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,…

— Thomas Hampson

“It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Tesla,” the vicar mused. “That’s a foreign name, is it not? Hungarian, is it?” “Serbian,” I corrected him. “I’m afraid the ——shire…

— Vinnie Tesla

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

— Herbert Butterfield

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

— Richard Cohen

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

— Christine Quinn

“History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.”

— Eca De Queiroz

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn't know the history.

— Rhiannon Giddens

“If you knew the history of that flute, it would make your brain flip upside-down. And”

— Brandon Sanderson

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

— Gwen Ifill

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

— Shashi Tharoor

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

— Andrew Weil

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

— Mason Cooley