History Quotes · Page 78

“There is no 'right side of history', there is only their side, and yours”

— Holden R. Snow

I'm from Raleigh, N.C. It's my home, the most beautiful place ever - but it has some racist history.

— P. J. Tucker

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

— Katty Kay

“We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai”

— Eleni Papanou

“I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

— Thomas Hobbes

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the…

— James Baker

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is…

— Carl Sagan

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators…

— Bernie Sanders

We oll grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the atties of our brains as they…

— Ladygaga

“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men…

— Robert Graves

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and…

— Johan Huizinga

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have…

— Adam Cohen

Trump, who in his own history as a developer preferred mob concrete and Chinese steel to the variety produced in the Rust…

— Joy Reid

“This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution – one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations…

— Orlando Figes

Grandad's always makin up some shit about history! How come everyone we related to is somebody famous? The first nigga to go…

— Riley Freeman

“This is why Warhol is not part of the history of art. He is, quite simply, part of the world. He does…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Power Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth one bottle amber…

— Adrienne Rich

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he…

— Pearl S. Buck

“I went to the library to look up the figures, and I found out that the episode we watched is the highest…

— Stephen Chbosky

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

— Tom Ford

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

— Keith David

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”

— Steven Pinker

The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations

— Kofi Annan

“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.”

— China Miéville

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

— Temple Grandin

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

— Liev Schreiber

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

— Frederick Soddy

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

8H has such an epic, storied history. You can feel that when you're in there.

— Mikey Day

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

— John Smith