History Quotes · Page 226

I was a guy who was born in Cardiff and thought, there must be more to my history than that.

— Shakin' Stevens

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

“That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

— Plato

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

— H. G. Wells

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history…

— Jennifer Granholm

“Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It…

— Joy Hakim

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

— James Carville

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden...

— R. C. Sproul

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

— Thomas Gage

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee,…

— Fred Thompson

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next…

— Bill Buxton

I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot…

— Bernard Hopkins

“Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When…

— Arianne Cohen

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade…

— James W. Loewen

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and…

— Clifford Geertz

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from…

— James Altucher

If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington…

— Sean Doolittle

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of…

— Walter Bagehot

“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about…

— Thomas Frank

With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured…

— Ronald Steel

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

— Robert Walpole

Wimbledon is the only tournament where you feel the real history of tennis.

— Jannik Sinner

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

— Carl Andre

I can confidently say that I significantly contributed in making unprecedented history at TFC.

— Sebastian Giovinco

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

— Harri Holkeri

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

— Lucien Febvre

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

— Jacob M. Appel

History is full of strong, imposing women. Well, my internet history is anyway.

— Nikhil Saluja

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

— Max Boot

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

— Mark McKinnon

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

— Erin O'Toole

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

— Juliette Gordon Low

Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

— Pat Buchanan

The good die young and the great change the course of history.

— Anonymous

The importance of Black History transcends any one month or day.

— Byron Donalds

“This time let's make sure history never forgets The name ENTERPRISE!”

— Ronald D. Moore