History Quotes · Page 242

The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.

— James Clapper

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

— James Galvin

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

— Anonymous

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

— Wen Tianxiang

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

— Anne Michaels

History becomes easier to remember once you start playing a significant part in it.

— Christopher Abraham

“They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.”

— Lee Strauss

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps…

— Sufjan Stevens

“I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”

— Bauvard

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

— Anonymous

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given;…

— Primo Levi

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish…

— George Crumb

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I…

— Giacomo Casanova

I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and…

— Lauren Graham

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is…

— Dana Spiotta

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't…

— Robert K. Massie

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The…

— Walter Russell Mead

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant…

— Pope John Paul II

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got…

— Brian McKnight

After us, Barca had the luck, which in reality is not luck but work, to combine three things: a young coach with…

— Deco

I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so…

— Dalai Lama

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

— Anonymous

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

— Mark Twain

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

— Tom Paulin

You're pretty much my most of all Time... In the History of Ever.

— Anonymous

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

— Norman Davies

Newcastle United has so much history around it and that's a form of pressure in itself.

— Miguel Almiron

“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.”

— Jojo Moyes

“She reminded me of a picture in a history book of the executioner who killed on of the kings.”

— Ian Cross

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

— Voltaire

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

The Champions League is worth more and allows you to write a page in football's history.

— Gianluca Vialli

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

— Gary Chapman

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

— Erwin McManus

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

— J. William Schopf

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

— Nick Cave