History Quotes · Page 235

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

— George S. Patton

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

— Joseph J. Ellis

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

— Tom Tancredo

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

— Melvin B. Tolson

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

— Olivier Giroud

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

— John Piper

“Since history, war has always been the same. Old men talking, young men dying.”

— Kiana Davenport

“I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when…

— Erik Larson

Let this place be forgotten forever. Let it be struck from the rolls of history. Let it never be spoke by man…

— Skyrim

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

— Chuck Smith

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which…

— Ayana Mathis

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— Thomas Paine

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic…

— Lionel Shriver

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every…

— Michael Collins

The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double…

— Ha-Joon Chang

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We…

— Nicholas Rodger

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion…

— Ben Macintyre

Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy…

— Paul Rotha

“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human…

— Jan Siegel

“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a…

— Noam Chomsky

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

— Peter Kreeft

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

— Seb Kirby

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

— Jane Haddam

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

— Gareth Southgate

“Everyone is a historian. Everyone is his own historian.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

— Beaumont Newhall

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't…up to scratch”

— Andrea K. Höst

Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.

— John Cho

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

— Al Davis

“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.”

— Lucy Knisley

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

— John Henrik Clarke

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

— Erik Qualman