History Quotes · Page 221

“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”

— Stacy Schiff

There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.

— Kevin Young

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.

— Sarah Dessen

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

— John Knowles

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

— Thomas Frank

For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.

— Thiago Silva

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

— Keisha Buchanan

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

— Tom Wolfe

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our…

— Tessa Thompson

“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the…

— Anderson Cooper

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

— William Stanley Jevons

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I…

— Gore Vidal

“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.”

— Gil Asakawa

“This is a critical juncture in our history. Many young people of color in economically underdeveloped communities are becoming deeply rooted in…

— Anonymous

“During the carriage ride here, Archer had promised that Arobynn Hamel wasn’t attending, and neither was Lysandra—a courtesan with whom Celaena had…

— Sarah J. Maas

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue…

— Dustin Yellin

Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the…

— Kaz Cooke

Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the…

— Howard Zinn

“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are…

— Steven Erikson

“Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.”

— Reinhart Koselleck

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

— Learned Hand

“We have shelves full of maps of places that only used to exist. Everything unique is vanishing.”

— Heidi Heilig

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

— Libba Bray

“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school”

— Josh Stern

“If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie”

— Nico J. Genes

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

— Ernest Renan

Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.

— Theo Epstein

I want to go down, like my hero Sugar Ray Robinson, in history.

— Kell Brook

Love is the whole history of a woman's life,it is an episode in man's

— My Favorite Qoutes

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

— Robert Fulghum

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

— Dan Coats

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

— Eric Holder

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

— Dick Wolf

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event

— Geraldine Jewsbury

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

— Jay Black