History Quotes · Page 255

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some…

— C. L. R. James

“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between…

— Nadeem Aslam

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and…

— Philip Jenkins

So there is no new truth, but only a fresh revelation of ancient truth, as she testified in the Scriptures.

— Biniam Yibaleh

“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel…

— Andrew Ashling

What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters

— Susane Colasanti

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a…

— John Lescroart

“This all fits in neatly with the history of American crime. Briefly, it’s the story of two kinds of lawbreakers: criminals, bad…

— Tony Dokoupil

The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools…

— Stephen Harper

As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified…

— Ronen Bergman

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with…

— Francis Bacon

“He found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock…

— Henry James

“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge…

— Edward R. Murrow

“You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you…

— dianne sylvan

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

— Penelope Wilton

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are…

— James A. Michener

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict…

— Charles Krauthammer

“What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in…

— H.G. Wells

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its…

— Charles Handy

“We have such a long history that when I look into his eyes that's all I can see. I forget the stupidity…

— K.A. Linde

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

— Sarah Weinman

What happens, happens. It's permanent, forever lost in history. There's no turning back & time stops for no one. But the things…

— Anonymous

Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the…

— Xi Jinping

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by…

— Earl Browder

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's…

— J. D. Salinger

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the…

— George Takei

“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”

— Cornel West

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food…

— Winona LaDuke

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the…

— Russell Baker

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old…

— Homaro Cantu

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

— Diane von Furstenberg

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit…

— Oliver Stone

I don't see any distinction between work and pleasure so I do spend a lot of what other people might consider my…

— Lucy Worsley

“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding…

— Elliot Perlman

I love having a front-row seat on history, whether that's a White House briefing room or the campaign trail.

— Ed Henry

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

But I'm history to you. You saved me. 2008. You saved us all. Why is that different? The Doctor: Some things are…

— Donna Noble